Sociological assessment of personnel as a factor in ensuring corporation information security

The article is devoted to the problem of a person's social diagnostic assessment in the corporate information security management system. Non-technical information security techniques and social mechanisms to improve information security management are considered. The article confirms the tendency of increasing the number of information leaks due to the information security units faults. The author gives the description of staff readiness sociological assessment methodology to prevent confidential data leakage. The author's methodology is based on the results of corporation information security management sociological support. It means providing top managers (or information security staff) with relevant generalised and systematised information required to make management decisions based on the results of corporate employees sociological examination. The personality social core model for information security staff was developed. The levels of social readiness, social competence and social compatibility are normalised, which makes it possible to correlate the assessed candidate to a specific subtype from 27 hypothetically possible ones. The author's research allows stating that assessing a person's social core formation level makes it possible to permit a specific employee or candidate to work at an information security unit. The proposed author's methodology provides decision-makers with tools for personnel diagnostics and assesses potential applicants or employees from information security staff.

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