Liu Chunyan, Qi Xuechen, Ma Haiqun
[Purpose/significance] The overall national security concept urgently needs to enhance big data security capabilities, revealing the multiple paths under the coupling of multiple influencing factors of big data security capabili⁃ties. This not only helps to promote the rational utilization and management of regional data resources, enhance regional big data collaborative security capabilities, but also helps to build a national security guarantee system. [Method/pro⁃cess] Based on an improved TOE theoretical framework, a framework for influencing factors of big data security was constructed from four aspects: technical level, organizational capability, environmental factors, and data elements. 31 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) were selected as research objects, and a combination of Structural Equation Mod⁃eling (PLS-SEM) and Qualitative Comparison (QCA) was used to explore the relationships between various factors and the path of China's big data security capability from a configuration perspective. [Result/conclusion] The closer the re⁃
lationship between technical level, organizational ability, environmental factors, and data elements, the higher the level of big data security capability; information infrastructure, innovation capability, organizational governance and securi⁃ty, economic level, education level, data resource construction, and data element circulation cannot be the necessary conditions for achieving big data security capabilities alone, and they need to be combined and matched with each oth⁃er; the configuration paths for high-level data security capabilities include organization data balance type, data gover⁃nance element circulation type, data resource construction dominant type, and data element circulation dominant type.The configuration paths for non high-level data security capabilities include technology environment data comprehen⁃sive deficiency type, data foundation deficiency type, technology resource deficiency type, and technology deficiency type; China should follow the guiding ideology of the overall national security concept, start from the advantages of each region, combine the configuration perspective of each region, and choose a path suitable for the development of big data security capabilities in each region.
