20 June 2014

Call for papers: “Challenges to Cybersecurity in the 21st Century"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management.

The use of the internet as a tool of international commerce is expanding at a very rapid rate. Countries that are years behind in technology have been catapulted into the 21st century by virtue of easy access to the internet and social media. There is therefore a need for specialists in the area of cybersecurity to develop the resources necessary for monitoring, designing and containing the explosion of the threat of cyber terrorism.

Recent events in the Ukraine, Nigeria, the Middle East (Yemen) and South Sudan point to the need for technology to be used to confront the spread of terrorism globally. Nations are increasingly developing the capability of surveillance of other countries; therefore countervailing strategies need to be developed to handle the inordinate growth of the incidence of cyber terrorism worldwide.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Management of information security
  • Principles of information security management
  • Planning for information security implementation
  • Contingency planning for information security
  • Information security policy
  • Organising for security in large and medium-sized organisations
  • Organisational security and information technology
  • Accounting and finance through information technology
  • Implementation of security education, training and awareness programmes
  • Risk management and risk assessment in the digital age
  • Establishment of security clearances in the 21st century
  • Protective mechanisms for cybersecurity
  • Information systems and intrusion detection systems
  • Information security and personnel
  • Law and ethics in information security
  • Organisational liability and information security
  • Information security and project management
  • Ethics and education in information security
Important Dates
Manuscript submission: 1 December, 2014
Notification to authors: 1 March, 2015
Final paper submission: 15 August, 2015

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