[AISWorld] CFP HICSS48 Intellectual Property and KM Security minitrack

[MurphJen at aol.com]

We have heard  and read many times in the last several decades that the 
most important asset of  an organization is the knowledge of its employees. 
While this knowledge can be a  target of sophisticated cyber-attacks or fraud, 
most likely the leaking of  knowledge can happen because of careless 
organizational practices, asset misuse,  or behavior of employees. Organizations 
put in place many technology-based  security measures (firewalls, filtering 
systems) to guard against attacks, yet  it is not that easy to guard against 
the human-side of security practices. An  organization can have the best 
security technology in place, yet a careless  employee talking or emailing or 
posting on Facebook about the ‘new development’  at the company bypasses all 
this security technology with ease.  Furthermore, one can find lot of  
information about current projects done by a company by searching the web. How  
can an organization effectively protect its intellectual property remains an  
unanswered question. What type of security and intelligence techniques are 
out  that that can protect the intellectual property? What are the best ways 
to train  employees so that they would spot potentially criminal ac tivity, 
such as fraud,  among employees? Could crowdsourcing be used in this case, 
meaning asking  employees to vote on a particular issue to determine whether 
it represents a  potential threat? Could implementation of KMS potentially 
cause legal problems  because some KM artifacts could be uncovered during 
discovery and used as  evidence against a company?
 
 
This  mini-track seeks papers that investigate issues related to security 
and  protection of intellectual assets and explore how organizations can use  
security measures to protect their KM practices. Possible topics include, 
but  are not limited to: 
• Securing  intellectual assets; 
• Legal  concerns when implementing KMS. 
• Techniques  used to scan employee communication channels (e.g., email, 
Facebook, text  messages); 
• Security  strategies within and outside the company boundaries; 
• Training  employees on potential threats to security breaches; 
• Preventative  measures to secure KM assets; 
• Knowledge  loss risk management; 
• Impact of  immigration and cultural issues on potential KM security  
breach; 
• Using KM  security to mitigate impacts of retirement and worker  
transience; 
• Measuring  risk of knowledge loss due to security breach; 
• Security  models and architectures for knowledge systems; 
• Modeling  risk in knowledge systems; 
• Tradeoffs in  knowledge systems between security and knowledge  sharing; 
• Technologies  for knowledge system security. 
Contacts: 
Alexandra  Durcikova 
(primary  contact) 
Department of  MIS 
Price College  of Business 
The University  of Oklahoma 
Email:  alex at ou.edu 
Murray E.  Jennex 
Management  Information Systems 
San Diego  State University 
Email:  Murphjen at aol.com,  mjennex at mail.sdsu.edu




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