A Study about Information Security Governance beyond Organizational Boundaries

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23500306
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Hideyuki 東京大学, 情報学環, 教授 (30332589)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 情報セキュリティ / ガバナンス / 組織の境界

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Could computing and other new information communication technologies, ICTs, have been changing structures of ICT system. This kind of transformation makes it more important to ensure information security beyond organizational boundaries. This research aimed to contribute to form a new security governance by analyzing the following five issues: catastrophic disaster and information security, impact of cloud computing on firm’s organization, institutional aspects of personal data use, quantitative estimation of damage of information security incidents, and investigation of BYOD, Bring Your Own Device, in Japanese firms. The results of these studies provide useful findings to form a new security governance.

Free Research Field

社会情報学