Integration of IT-Security Aspects into Information Demand Analysis and Patterns

Information logistics in general addresses demand-oriented information supply in organizations. IT-security has not received much attention in information logistics research. However, integration of security aspects into information logistics methods could be useful for application contexts with strong security requirements. As a contribution to this aspect, the paper investigates the possibility to extend information demand patterns (IDP) and information demand analysis (IDA) with security elements. The contributions of this paper are (1) to motivate the integration of security aspects into IDP based on the analysis of three IDPs, (2) the integration of security requirements elicitation from business processes (SREBP) and information demand analysis, and (3) and enhanced representation of IDP including security aspects.