[AISWorld] HICSS51 CfP KM and Information Security Minitrack

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HICSS 2018 January 3-6,  2018 Hilton Waikoloa  Village, Hawaii 
_http://hicss.hawaii.edu/http://hicss.hawaii.ed_ 
(http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/)  
TRACK: Knowledge Innovation and  Entrepreneurial Systems 
MINITRACK: Knowledge Management and Information  Security Minitrack 
The purpose  of this Minitrack is to focus on research on the intersection 
of knowledge  management and organizational or individual security. 
Specifically, 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  activity, 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  minitrack 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; 
    *   Filtering messages regarding  current business practices on social 
media (e.g., Facebook,  LinkedIn) 
    *   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.
MINITRACK  CO-CHAIRS 
Alexandra  Durcikova (Primary  Contact)
The University of Oklahoma
_alex at ou.edu_ (mailto:alex at ou.edu)  
Murray E.  Jennex
San Diego  State University
_mjennex at mail.sdsu.edu_ (mailto:mjennex at mail.sdsu.edu)  
IMPORTANT  DATES 
 


 
Deadline for paper  submissions:              June 15, 2017    11:59 PM 
Hawaii  time 
Notification of  acceptance:                         August 17,  2017 
Final paper  due:                                      September 22,  2017 
Conference:                                                       January 
3-6,  2018 
INSTRUCTIONS  FOR AUTHORS: 
Please see _http://hicss.hawaii.edu/http://hicss.hawaii.edu/<WBR>t_ 
(http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/)  for author instructions. 
Alexandra Durcikova, PhD 
Assistant  Professor of MIS 
The  University of Oklahoma 
307 West  Brooks, Room 305D 
Norman,  Oklahoma 73019-4006 
Ph: _(405)  325-3213_ (tel:(405)%20325-3213)