ABSTRACT
To guarantee their continuity and success in an increasingly global and changing society, where organizations need to have useful and necessary information always available in a fast and efficient manner in order to develop their daily activities, information security becomes a key factor. This study is meant to know whether the behavior and actions of Information Systems users are a risk or a protection to these systems security. In order to reach this objective we carried out a bibliographical review based on secondary sources that allowed us to develop a questionnaire for data collection. Secondly we used an online questionnaire to gather answers from 780 subjects who worked mainly in Portugal. The collected data were subject to a simple statistical treatment, specially frequency and analysis of means. The main conclusion derived from this study shows that in general users are considered to be a protection for the information systems security in organizations.
Keywords:
information systems; information and communication technologies; information systems security; users' behavior
