Exploring the Information Security Management Model in Iranian Government Organizations with an Organized Crime Prevention Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD Student in Public Administration, Chalous Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chalous, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Rafsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan, Iran

4 Assistant Professor of Computer Department, Chalous Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chalous, Iran.

10.30510/psi.2023.273179.1533

Abstract

The main action to create security in an organization is to create a strong body for information security management. Information security management provides a model for protecting an organization's information assets, thereby minimizing the possibility of unauthorized access to these sensitive assets. Experts believe that attacks such as fraud, information theft and money laundering, which are routinely conducted online, along with other crimes such as computer theft, computer fraud, cyber espionage and information disclosure, are all organized crimes. The context of crisis and crime, the adoption of appropriate policies and preventive management has become more necessary than ever, so the present qualitative research with the ultimate goal of "exploring the pattern of information security management in Iranian government organizations with an organized crime prevention approach" and Using the research method of data foundation theory, interview data collection method, theoretical sampling and snowball were performed and with 17 interviews, theoretical saturation was obtained. A collection of basic themes was collected during the open coding process and categories were extracted from them. Then, in the axial coding stage, the links between these categories were determined in the form of a coding paradigm. Then, in the selective coding stage, each component of the coding paradigm was described, the course of the drawing and the pattern were created.

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