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CALL FOR PAPERS

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems
August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA
 
Track: Information Systems Security and Privacy;
Mini-track: Socio-technical dimensions in IS Security 
(AIS SIGSEC)

 
DESCRIPTION

Prelude:

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 mini-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.

Motivation:

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.  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.

We propose that papers addressing for following issues, but not limited to, are encouraged:

-    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 new information security practices
-    Social and economic issues relating to Critical Incident Management Systems
-    Information Warfare
-    Economics of IS Security
-    Privacy and anonymity.
-    Business Continuity 
-    Manpower and personnel integration for information assurance 

IMPORTANT DATES 

* Feb 17, 2011: Full paper submission deadline 
* Mar 24, 2011: Authors notified of paper acceptance decision 
* April 21, 2011: Camera-ready papers due 

PAPER SUBMISSION 

Paper can be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011. 
Additional information regarding the submission process will be made available on the AMCIS 2011 primary website: http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/ 

MINITRACK CHAIR'S CONTACT INFORMATION 

Raj Sharman (SUNY, Buffalo, NY; rsharman@buffalo.edu)
G. Dhillon (VCU, Richmond, Virginia; gdhillon@vcu.edu)
H. R. Rao (SUNY, Buffalo, NY; mgmtrao@acsu.buffalo.edu)



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