Information Security Management Practices: Study of the Influencing Factors in a Brazilian AIR FORCE Institution

ABSTRACT This article aims at analyzing the factors which influence the staff of the Brazilian Air Force Information Technology Board - DTI in relation to the understanding of the application of the Information Security Management practices. This attempt was based on the hypothetical-deductive method and, as to its objective, it was descriptive in nature. As to the approach of the research problem, it was quantitative in nature. In order to achieve the proposed objective, an adaptation of the Theoretical Technology Acceptance Model - TAM, which allowed the analysis of the relation between soci...