Managing Knowledge Security: Strategies for protecting your company s intellectual assets - Softcover

Desouza K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749452617 ISBN 13: 9780749452612

Publisher: Kogan Page Limited, 2008

Synopsis

Most businesses are familiar with cyber-crime from the many high-profile news articles appearing in recent years. However, the majority of today s security breaches aren t a result of sophisticated hacker activity, but spring instead from careless organizational practices, asset misuse, or the behaviour of employees. Whether the asset is market experience itself, intellectual property or competitive intelligence, you can be sure that someone somewhere, is interested in knowing what you know. Managing Knowledge Security provides an in-depth assessment of current trends in knowledge security and shows exactly what can be done to counter both careless and deliberately rogue activities. Starting with the employees themselves, the author discusses knowledge misuse, sloppiness and leaks accidental or otherwise before turning his attention to the knowledge losses that can occur as a result of information and communication technologies. Subsequent chapters discuss physical security, in the contexts of strategic alliances and crises both natural (hurricanes, fires, etc) and human (terrorism, war, etc). Whether you are a newcomer to the field and are only just recognizing the scale of the issues involved, or you re already engaged in crafting intellectual asset security pro-grammes, this book will provide you with critical tools with which to view, understand and implement the most effective protection strategies for your organization. The protection of a company s intellectual property would rank highly on most companies list of corporate priorities, but many organizations when actually tested by a crisis show themselves to be woefully unprepared in terms of response, contingency or recovery. Managing Knowledge Security is a comprehensive reference work that details how to secure both the physical and intangible assets owned by a business. Citing international examples such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page Limited
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0749452617
• ISBN 13: 9780749452612
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English