Track chairs

Mikko Siponen, Univ. Oulu, Finland, mikko.siponen@oulu.fi

Robert Willison, CBS, Denmark

Anthony Vance, Brigham Young Univ., USA, anthony@vance.name

Track description

The functioning of modern society is increasingly reliant on computers and global networks. In this society, information security is an increasingly important issue. Information security breaches not only cause financial losses to organizations (for example by stopping organizations from trading) but information security breaches, such as violations of privacy (such as the stealing of credit-card or health information), can also have a direct impact on the well-being of individual home computer users. Failure to develop effective IS security can also lead to legal risks and costs.

This background provides the motivation for research which examines and explores the myriad problems and challenges posed by IS security and related privacy issues. To address these challenges, ECIS issues the “IS Security and Privacy” track to facilitate the development of rigorous IS research and theory development in the field of IS security and privacy. The key objective of this track is to encourage high quality research papers that have implications for IS security and privacy research and practice. In addition, it is aimed to provide a forum in which research results can be debated. Potential topics include, but are not limited, to:

• IS security in systems analysis and design
• IS security and privacy governance and management
• IS risk analysis and management
• Development of IS security procedures and policies
• Employees’ compliance with IS security procedures
• Home computer users’ information security behavior
• IS security education and awareness
• Empirical studies IS security economics
• Empirical studies on information security management standards
• Social, legal and ethical aspects of IS security and privacy
• Research methods and issues in IS security and privacy
• Privacy implications of individual computer users’ behavior