... environment. Research limitations/implications The research subjects (i.e. survey participants) for both pilot studies were students of the University of South Australia. There are many ways in which information risk communication could be made more effective and this paper only attempts to show how...

... in Australia in particular. It further discusses IT‐centric measures that need to be undertaken for the purposes of compliance of the Act and provides an overview of enabling technology currently available. Findings from various market research conducted (GVU Tenth WWW User Survey, 1998; Forrester Research...

..., especially in those organisations that have specified that IT is critical to the business operations. The survey was undertaken because there was a perception that coping with disaster is a much‐neglected aspect of management in Australia, and this analysis examines the underlying attitudes. The findings...

... in Australia today. A representative sample of over 300 Australian companies was surveyed. Of the respondents, 37 per cent had experienced some form of intrusion or other unauthorised use of computer systems in the last 12 months. Nearly 90 per cent of those that had experienced computer‐related incidents had...

... a need for more information about their customers, in an appropriate format, of an appropriate type, and delivered at the appropriate time. This requirement has already driven the growth of the data warehouse industry in the USA and will no doubt also do so in Australia. The following technical...

...Liz Coghlan; Margaret Hurley Describes a survey, undertaken by the Nolan Norton Institute in mid‐1995, of Australia’s senior IT (information technology) ranks. The objective of the survey was to gain a better understanding of the continent’s senior IT executives. The results show a grim reality...

...Kevin J. Fitzgerald Deals with the dangers to computer systems from flooding and water‐related hazards which so far appear to have been underestimated,and offers preventive and remedial advice to companies which may find themselves in such a position. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Australia...

.... The results illuminate some of the human resource and training issues and challenges that organizations engaged in extensive computerization may need to address. Australia Computer users Computers Job satisfaction Training The potential impact of computer usage on job attitudes remains an area...

...Karen A. Forcht; Robert G. Brookshire; Scott P. Stevens; Rodney Clarke Compares attitudes regarding the ethical use of computers in samples of business students from universities in the United States and Australia. Finds that the two groups are statistically significantly different on 17 of the 26...

...Vic Kamay; Tony Adams Analyses some of the 497 cases of computer abuse recorded by the Australian Computer Abuse Research Bureau, since its inception in 1978. Features include perpetrators and the law, and computer abuse by industry. THE 1992 PROFILE OF COMPUTER ABUSE IN AUSTRALIA: PART 2 21...