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

Socio-technical dimensions in IS Security

Security & Privacy

Chairs:

G. Dhillon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of IS

E-mail: gdhillon@vcu.edu

Tel: (804) 828 3183

School of Business

Virginia Commonwealth University

1015 Floyd Avenue

Richmond, VA 23284-4000

R. Sharman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of IS

E-mail: rsharman@buffalo.edu

Tel: (716) 645-2081

367 Jacobs Management Center

State University of New York

School of Management

Buffalo, New York, Buffalo 14260

H. R. Rao, Ph.D.

Professor of IS

E-mail: mgmtrao@acsu.buffalo.edu

Tel: (716) 645-3425

368 Jacobs Management Center

State University of New York

School of Management

Buffalo, New York, Buffalo 14260

Description:

Most of the conferences in the past have focused on technical issues relating to IS security. While our proposal includes an invitation for papers from these communities as it relates to information systems, we feel that social, organizational, economic and political issues play a major role in information systems security development and implementation. We have therefore proposed a track on security that is more inclusive and covers organizational issues along with technical issues.

Our hope is that you would find this track attractive and would support it. We think that our proposal will be of interest to a much wider audience and attract a much broader interest group thus spurring research into new areas that relate to security.

Over the past few years awareness of IS security problems has been at an all time high. To a large extent this is abetted by increased spending by corporations on a range of security mechanism. It is estimated that that there has been a nearly 28% growth, year on year on IS security spending.

Various researchers have indicated that perhaps one of the reasons for our inability to contain IS security breaches is the skewed emphasis on technical controls (e.g. see Baskerville, 1993). In the literature, calls have also been made to study the socio-organizational aspects of IS security (Dhillon and Backhouse, 2001). It therefore seems prudent to focus attention on socio-technical aspects of IS security. Further, important security issues also include economic aspects that deal with loss of productivity relating to additional processes that now form part of the value chain. It is clear from the ramifications of security implementations that information systems should deal with broader issues that are socio-technical and economic as well.

This broad theme serves to a much larger community and we hope to provide a forum for in this conference. It is our expectation that the range of papers that will be submitted to this track will help in taking forward issues identified in previous research and set the stage of establishing an agenda for further research. The discussions afforded by this track will also be the basis for sustaining a comprehensive research stream in this area and usher new ways and dimensions to dealing with security.

The mini-track will focus on:

IS Security design and management methods
Security risk analysis
Behavioral issues in IS security
IS security culture and awareness issues
Social, legal and ethical aspects of IS Security
Organizational issues in IS security
Strategic management issues in IS security
Models for IS security implementation
IS Modeling and design with focus on developing security
Architectures for securing systems
Security models based on biological systems
Data and metadata issues in information system security
Security for Medical Data
Change Management issues relating to information security practices
Social and economic issues relating to Critical Incident Management Systems
Information Warfare
Economics of IS Security
Privacy and anonymity
Monitoring and privacy
Manpower and personnel integration for information assurance