The design and use of management control systems can play a key role in dealing with cybersecurity issues that have arisen in tandem with the emergence of the Internet. Efficient management control systems will reduce a firm's likelihood of suffering significant losses from cybersecurity...

This study measures the economic consequences of information security activities, in general, and more specifically the market value of disclosures of information security activities. Since information security activities are primarily non-revenue generating, management tends to view them as the...

This paper empirically examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 on the voluntary disclosure of information security activities by corporations. The empirical evidence provided clearly indicates that SOX is having a positive impact on such disclosure. These findings provide...