Cyber-security, Privacy and Ethics of IS

As companies attempt to enhance the value of their services to customers, a commonly used strategy involves using more user data to provide better targeting, personalization, and product recommendations. However, user data collection and storage come with heavy corporate responsibilities towards data security, user privacy, and ethical data usage. Companies increasingly face the non-trivial task of striking a balance between executing data analytics initiatives and ensuring sufficient security/privacy protection.

Since the first computer worm written by Robert Morris in 1989 and the first viruses in the 1990s, online attack vectors have grown in magnitude and sophistication. People, data, and things are targets: credit card attacks, data breaches in both private and public organizations, and instances of cybercrime have grown through the years. While there is general agreement over the need to secure systems and protect data, many current protective measures are ineffective, can reduce individual users and businesses’ productivity, and may systematically discriminate against some user groups.

This track aims to encourage papers that focus on bridging cybersecurity, privacy, and ethics research in IS. At the same time, consider cutting edge research in each of the three areas jointly or separately. Submitted manuscripts can draw on any theoretical background (including but not limited to psychology, economics, sociology, criminology, or computational sciences) and methodological approaches (analytical work, design science, econometric analysis, experiments, qualitative studies, and so forth).

Track Chairs:
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Matthew L. Jensen, University of Oklahoma
Seung Hyun Kim, Yonsei University
Juhee Kwon, City University of Hong Kong