AMCIS 2007@KEYSTONE -- CONFERENCE TRACK(MINI TRACK)

Technical and Educational

Aspects of IS Security

Security & Privacy

Chair(s):

Al Bento
Merrick School of Business
University of Baltimore
Phone:(410)837-5272

Benjamin Ngugi
Suffolk Business School
Suffolk University
Phone:(617)973-5380

Description:

The last fifteen years have seen the rise of networking, the Internet coming of age, the revolution of Electronic Commerce, and more recently the birth of home networking and broadband access. A key foundation of all these activities is security related to the Internet and networks. Traditionally, Security has been a Computer Science field of study. But managerial, professional, and teaching aspects of Internet and Network Security need the Information System field's attention today.

Teaching Internet security both to information systems professionals and end users is a major challenge in this new century. Integrating Internet security in the information systems literacy course is much needed, as evidenced by recent security breaches in business networks, achieved through access to the home broadband connection of employees. There is also a need to integrate Internet security in traditional information systems courses like database, systems analysis, networking, and more recent ones, such as Electronic Commerce. Courses dedicated to general aspects of Internet and network security are also much needed.

The development of new frameworks, paradigms and models of Internet and Network Security for general business and for small and home offices (SOHO) are of paramount importance for Information Systems. The relationship between Electronic Commerce, the Digital Economy, and Internet and Network Security also needs to be studied more systematically.

The focus of the mini-track is on all technical and educational aspects of security related to Information Systems in the increasingly networked environment of organizations, households and individuals. Teaching, technical and research issues are of interest to the mini-track. Topics can deal with security of a Fortune 500 organization, with home broadband security, and with wearable PCs forthcoming security challenges.

The mini-track will focus on:

frameworks and paradigms for network and Internet security
theory building and empirical studies of network and Internet security
technical and empirical research on tools effectiveness, OS vulnerabilities, Security breach incidents, etc
research on network and Internet security aspects of data base, systems development, etc.
analysis, design and implementation of network and Internet security systems
collection of tools for specific security aspects of. data base , systems development, etc.
cases and tools for teaching security in general and in data base, systems development, etc.
model syllabi for network and Internet security courses
class materials to integrate network and Internet security in the various MIS courses: the MBA core course, data base, systems analysis and design, etc.
creating and running centers of security excellence-lessons learnt