Preliminary results of an internationally focused UAB study show that industries in traditionally individualistic Western cultures have more difficulty ensuring information security policy compliance among employees when compared to their more collectively focused counterparts in Eastern cultures.

Allen Johnston, Ph.D., assistant professor of information systems in the UAB School of Business, will offer these preliminary findings at the first conference on data security. The International Working Conference on Information Systems Security Research is being held May 29-30 in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing's Technical Committee on Information Systems (IFIP TC 8).

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