Six Board Roles for Information Security Governance

Sara Nodehi, Tim Huygh, Laury Bollen

2024

Abstract

As cyber threats evolve, board engagement is becoming increasingly essential to ensure Information Security (InfoSec) is integrated into an organization’s strategic fabric, ensuring the protection of business value. Only through board-level active participation can the organization develop a security-conscious culture. Ultimately, board commitment to InfoSec helps reduce risks, maintain stakeholder trust, and ensure long-term success. However, little is yet known about the board’s exact role in Infosec. Leveraging a framework from corporate governance literature identifying board roles, and drawing parallels with extant InfoSec literature, this paper explores board-level involvement in InfoSec in greater depth, leading to the identification and description of the board of directors’ roles in this context. Moreover, the paper identifies a future research agenda to be pursued in an empirical setting to contribute to the growth of knowledge regarding board-level InfoSec governance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nodehi S., Huygh T. and Bollen L. (2024). Six Board Roles for Information Security Governance. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 713-720. DOI: 10.5220/0012695900003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Sara Nodehi and Tim Huygh and Laury Bollen},
title={Six Board Roles for Information Security Governance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={713-720},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012695900003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS
TI - Six Board Roles for Information Security Governance
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Nodehi S.
AU - Huygh T.
AU - Bollen L.
PY - 2024
SP - 713
EP - 720
DO - 10.5220/0012695900003690
PB - SciTePress