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This paper describes an attempt to collect data on the day-to-day activities of IT security officers in Sweden. A number of different techniques for collecting data are discussed including, analysis of employment adds for IT-security officers, job descriptions, mail-in questionnaires and interviews. The results of interviews with 10 IT security officers are presented. The interviews indicated that a large portion of the IT-security officer’s day (20–30%) is involved with education and awareness training of personnel. Few of the officers interviewed (two) actually performed operational security matters and most were involved with coordination of security activities within operational units. All interviewed indicated that they see their task as being more social than technical oriented and indicated that their day-to-day decisions are based more on hunch and intuition than in-depth analysis.
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Kowalski, S. (1995). A Day in the Life of a Swedish IT Security Officer: An Attempt at an Empirical Study. In: Eloff, J.H.P., von Solms, S.H. (eds) Information Security — the Next Decade. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34873-5_29
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