Title: Assessment of information security impacts on mobile social media

Authors: June Wei; Yuan Liu; June Lu; Milos Slaninka; Kristie Abston

Addresses: College of Business, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, Florida 32514-5752, USA ' School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China ' School of Business Administration, University of Houston-Victoria, 14000 University Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77479, USA ' College of Business, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, Florida 32514-5752, USA ' Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Aerospace N142, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132, USA

Abstract: This paper proposed an indexed matrix to assess information security risks' impacts on mobile social media to help organisations address security risks effectively and efficiently. It developed and integrated a static social media information security risk model and a dynamic social media information flow model in the mobile environment to investigate the potential security risks in social networks. The pattern of security risks with three levels was identified using cluster analysis. An indexed matrix is also proposed to assess the information security impacts on social media via the relative-weigh quantitative method. The results can help to develop an effective and safe way to transmit information through social media. This research is the first attempt to integrate static information security threats into the dynamic social media information flow processes to assess the information security risk levels by developing a new indexed method. The theoretical and practical implications are presented.

Keywords: mobile social media; security threats; information flow; security risk assessment.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2021.114313

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2021 Vol.19 No.3, pp.276 - 303

Received: 02 Jan 2019
Accepted: 17 Feb 2020
Published online: 16 Apr 2021 *

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