Integrating IS Security with Knowledge Management: Are We Doing Enough to Thwart the Persistent Threat?

Knowledge management focuses on capturing and sharing knowledge. Because of this, KM researchers tend to focus on issues related to knowledge capture, storage, and sharing. However, because knowledge is valuable, it is a target needing to be protected. This paper posits that KM researchers and practitioners also need to think security and explores how important security skills are to KM practitioners and researchers. A literature review is performed to determine how much attention is paid by KM researchers to knowledge security. Additionally, 50 KM job postings are examined to determine if security skills are considered important by those hiring KM practitioners. Finally, a survey is prepared for exploring security attitudes of KM practitioners.