Abstract: Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) is one of the well-known theory in research sphere of health psychology. An analysis was conducted to discover the top ten journals in Scopus which is using PMT. The 7 out of 10 journals are related to health psychology, however, interestingly there were 2 IS/IT journals applied PMT theory in the research (Computer in Human Behavior and MIS Quarterly). IT and IS with PMT seems be part of the top ten ranking in Scopus. This is also supported by Scopus data that PMT was started to be applied in IS domain, since, year 2008 and total of 23 papers were published until 2016. This clearly indicates that PMT is one of the appealing theory and actively being used in IS research. Hence, in this study, researcher outlined the emerged of PMT in IS/IT domain and intended to investigate on critical success factors to improvised Disaster Recovery (DR) process in IT organization.