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Friday, January 22, 2010

Looking for Case Studies and Documents about the Impact of Job Design on Enterprise Security Risks

I am looking for case studies, documents and statistics analysing the impact of job design choices on enterprise (security) risks.

Job design, in a nutshell, involves defining employee roles and related tasks associated for employees in an organisation.

Intuitively, job design decisions have an impact on the productivity of employees, number of accidental & deliberate incidents, exposure to security risks (e.g. by dealing/not dealing with separation of duties and/or empowering too much certain people/roles).

There are interesting studies tacking this issue from an economics perspective, such as the paper on “Limited Intertemporal Commitment and Job Design” (even if it is a little bit too abstract).

So far I have found very little in terms of studies and documents that scientifically analyse how changes in job design affect security risks in an organisation. Any link and reference would really be welcome.

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TSB EnCoRe Project – Sixth Quarter Summary and other News

The Sixth Quarter Summary of the TSB EnCoRe Project (Ensuring Consent and Revocation - http://www.encore-project.info/) has been released: http://www.encore-project.info/press_archive/Q6%20summary.pdf

The EnCoRe website has also extended to provide the latest news and EnCoRe tidbits, related to aspects of privacy, consent and revocation of preferences: http://www.encore-project.info/news.html#story1

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CfP MobiSec 2010 – Submission deadline: 8 February 2010

The CfP of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Moblie Information and Communication Systems – MobiSec 2010 is now available online: http://www.mobisec.org/

Please consider submitting a paper. The deadline is 08 February 2010.

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CfP TrustBus 2010 – Submission deadline: 12 March 2010

The CfP of the 7th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business – TrustBus 2010 is now available online: http://www.isac.uma.es/trustbus10/

Please consider submitting a paper. The deadline is 12 March 2010.

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CfP IEEE Policy 2010 – Submission deadline: 15 February 2010

The CfP of the 11th International Conference on Policies for Distributed Systems and networks – IEEE Policy 2010 is now available online: http://www.policy-workshop.org/

Please consider submitting a paper. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 8 February 2010 whilst the full paper is due on 15 February 2010.

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CfP SeCrypt 2010 – Submission deadline: 03 February 2010

The CfP of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography – SeCrypt 2010 is now available online: http://www.secrypt.icete.org/

Please consider submitting a paper. The deadline is 03 February 2010.

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