According to Shalini Kesar, a computer scientist at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, a key way to combat computer fraud is to make managers aware of security issues and have them drop hints that they know to their lackeys.
Kesar’s findings, which focus on the social aspects of information security, are published in the International Journal of Business Information Systems. The researcher says a lack of communication is a major contributor to computer fraud.
“Lack of awareness of social and technical issues among managers largely manifest themselves in a failure to implement even the most basic safeguards and controls,” Kesar says in a statement. “Concomitantly, if management ignores wider organizational structural issues then this too increases the likelihood of a potential offender committing computer fraud.”
