The relationships between information security management practices and organisational agility in Malaysia information technology business organisations / Muhamad Khairulnizam Zaini

Information Technology (IT) is perceived to play an essential role in organisational agility (OA), and often is regarded as an enabler for agility. The utilization of IT in providing organisation with sufficient information for rapid decision making for agility is the state-of-art strategy to works in today’s turbulent business environment. Although beneficial, it is however apparent that the applications of these recent emerging and advance information technologies within organisation, could introduces IT related issues such as information security and cyber threats, rapid and continuous technological advancement and obsolescent that eventually inhibit organisations’ agility. On the other side, several researchers found that practicing the information security management (ISM) could improve IT operational efficiencies and promotes OA. Looking at the possibilities of creating the conceptual links between ISM practices and OA as part of organisation strategy, this study focuses on the investigating the relationships between information security management ISM practices and OA of Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)-status companies. A conceptual research model was first developed based on an extensive literature review, which then the final model was established and used to develop measures and instruments.