Introduction to KM and Security: Protecting Intellectual Property Minitrack

We have heard and read many times in the last several decades that the most important asset of an organization is the knowledge of its employees. To allow an easy access to knowledge, organizations are implementing Knowledge Repositories. While this type of automation made it easy to store and distribute knowledge, it also made it easy to move knowledge outside the boundaries of a company. Organizations put in place many technology-based security measures (firewalls, filtering systems), yet they shouldn’t overlook the human-side of security practices. An organization can have the best security technology in place, yet a careless employee talking or emailing or posting on Facebook about the ‘new development’ at the company bypasses all this security technology with ease.