[AISWorld] CFP: HICSS 2013 Mini-Track - KM and Security: Protecting Intellectual Property

[Durcikova, Alexandra - (adurciko)]

CALL FOR PAPERS

HICSS 2013 : 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Maui, Hawaii, January 7-10, 2013

TRACK: Knowledge Systems
MINI-TRACK: KM and Security: Protecting Intellectual Property

The most important asset of an organization is the knowledge of its employees. To allow easy access to knowledge, organizations are implementing Knowledge Repositories. While this type of automation makes it easy to store and distribute knowledge, it also makes it easy to move knowledge outside the boundaries of a company. Organizations put in place many technology-based security measures (firewalls, filtering systems), yet they shouldn’t overlook 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 an organization can effectively protect its intellectual property remains an answered question.  What type of security and intelligence techniques can be used to protect intellectual property? What are the best ways to train employees so that they could spot potentially criminal activity among employees? Could crowdsourcing be used to determine whether something represents a potential threat?

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;

·         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;

Mini-track chairs:
Alexandra Durcikova (primary contact)
Department of MIS
Eller College of Management
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone: 520-621-3927
Email: alex at eller.arizona.edu

Murray E. Jennex
Information and Decision Science
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: (760) 966-0548
Email: Murphjen at aol.com,  mjennex at mail.sdsu.edu<mailto:mjennex at mail.sdsu.edu>

Submission Procedure:
Follow Author Instructions on the conference web site.  http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm

Important Dates:

·         June 15, 2012: Deadline for paper submission

·         August 15, 2012: Authors will be notified of acceptances

·         September 15, 2012: For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
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