Title: Cyber security management and e-government

Authors: Ye-Sho Chen, P. Pete Chong, Bin Zhang

Addresses: Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. ' Department of Finance, Accounting, and CIS, University of Houston-Downtown, One Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, USA. ' Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

Abstract: With the rapid growth of Information Technology, organisations are taking extra precautions when it comes to protecting information. In the complex interconnected business world, the common practice of deploying company-wide security solutions (e.g., anti-virus software and firewalls) is only the very first step of cyber security management. Adding to this first layer of security defence, two business-oriented security solutions are included in this paper: global partnership and proactive participation. In addition, an evolutionary process of learning to enhance the three layers of cyber security management is recommended to be done continuously. In order to manage these three layers of cyber security economically and effectively, an intranet-based framework of cyber security knowledge repositories based on the 80/20 rule is also proposed

Keywords: e-government; cyber security management; global partnerships; global collaboration; the 80/20 rule; intranets; electronic government.

DOI: 10.1504/EG.2004.005555

Electronic Government, an International Journal, 2004 Vol.1 No.3, pp.316 - 327

Published online: 19 Oct 2004 *

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