Applying need pull and technology push theory to organizational information security management

This study examined the impact of Need Pull (NP) and Technology Push (TP) on the relationships among three Information Security Management (ISM) variables: awareness, development and performance. Data were randomly collected from firms listed with the Korea Foreign Company Association to test the proposed research model. The study's hypotheses were tested using covariance-based structural equation modeling. The results showed that NP and TP had a significant impact on ISM awareness accounting for 36.8% of the variance and that ISM awareness significantly influenced ISM development accounting for 23.6% of the variance which similarly influenced performance, accounting for 14.4% of the variance.