A Review of ISA Impacts within Business Environment

Within the era of modern technology where we hardly avoid IT in our daily life, people are becoming increasingly aware of the IT benefits, especially as these benefits are mostly in tune with the fast-paced nature of the society today. The beauty of Information Technology (IT) is with its multifunction nature; it is a support system, a networking system, a storage system, as well as an information facilitator, IT system aims to support or even drive organizations towards desired paths, in supporting IT performance, information security awareness over IT is extremely needed. Trends of IT and information security awareness (ISA) in society today, particularly within the business environment is quite interesting phenomenon. The overviews of the role of IT in the modern world as well as the perception towards ISA are initially introduced. A further examination on matter of IT and ISA in the business environment – emphasis on revolution of business with ISA, security threats such as identity thefts, hacking and web harassments, and the different mode of protections that are applied in different business environments. This review is expected to identified the influence of information security awareness issues impacts within business environment processes.