CONFIDENTIALITY AND AVAILABILITY OF SECURITY MEASURES FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN UNIVERSITIES IN KISUMU AND SIAYA COUNTIES, KENYA

  • Martin M. N. Musyoka
  • George Raburu
  • Castro Yoga
  • N. B. Okelo

Abstract

Many organizations continue to grow in numbers by the day in adopting use and adoption of ICT
in day to day business processes and so are the rising trends in cyber insecurity. Securing
information systems against myriad spectrum of threats requires use of multiple, overlapping
protection approaches addressing people, technology and operational processes. ICT policies are
put in place in institutions to provide guidelines and standards on what is acceptable and what is
not as regards to use of ICT systems. In spite of these ICT policies, numerous instances all over
the world have been reported whereby university systems were compromised and university
information exposed to other third parties or malicious activities or unintentional errors.
According to a report published by Oracle (2008), there have been hundreds of data breaches
costing millions of dollars and damaging universities’ reputation. There is no evidence that
research has been carried out in the past to assess the level of compliance to ICT security policies
by the institutions of higher learning. This study therefore sought to bridge this gap by means of
a survey, to investigate and describe the level of compliance to ICT security policies in terms of
confidentiality and availability in Universities in Kisumu and Siaya Counties, Kenya

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Author Biographies

Martin M. N. Musyoka

School of Informatics and Innovative Systems
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 210-40601, BONDO-Kenya

George Raburu

School of Informatics and Innovative Systems
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 210-40601, BONDO-Kenya

N. B. Okelo

School of Mathematics and Actuarial Science
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University Science and Technology
P.O. Box 210-40601, BONDO-Kenya

Published
2015-08-31
How to Cite
Musyoka, M. M. N., Raburu, G., Yoga, C., & Okelo, N. B. (2015). CONFIDENTIALITY AND AVAILABILITY OF SECURITY MEASURES FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN UNIVERSITIES IN KISUMU AND SIAYA COUNTIES, KENYA. IJRDO -JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, 1(4), 01-09. https://doi.org/10.53555/m.v1i4.2409