TY - JOUR AV - none JF - Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology ID - scholars20317 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85163490101&partnerID=40&md5=3b06ced55c4b829d9d0b02f64b5782b9 PB - Little Lion Scientific SN - 19928645 VL - 101 TI - SOFTWARE SECURITY READINESS MODEL FOR REMOTE WORKING IN MALAYSIAN PUBLIC SECTORS: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK N1 - Cited by: 1 Y1 - 2023/// A1 - Hakimi, Halimaton A1 - Kamalrudin, Massila A1 - Abdullah, Raihana Syahirah A1 - Abdollah, Mohd Faizal A1 - Sidek, Safiah A1 - Suki, Nik A1 - Octaviani, Dewi A1 - Misron, Aervina N2 - Resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which requires mankind to practice social distancing, companies and government agencies do not have any options but to send their workers home and practice remote working. With very limited guidance, workers are required to work remotely by utilizing various software facilitated by Internet. The increased dependence on the cyberspace opens up the organization to become highly vulnerable to cyber threats/crimes, which may affect their performance. Hence, organizations need to manage their cyber risk by ensuring that they are capable to manage software security. Therefore, this study aims to propose a new software security readiness model that is able to measure the level of organizational readiness for workers working remotely. The readiness model enables the organizations to take proactive actions for continuously improving their weaknesses related to cyber threats. Furthermore, the model can be used as guidance to develop policy for the organization specifically and for the country (Cybersecurity Malaysia) for ethical use of digital technologies especially for remote working. © 2023 Little Lion Scientific. IS - 8 ER -