Authors: Baskerville, R Date: 1995 Title: “The Second Order Security Dilemma” Journal: Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work Pages: 239 - 249 |
| 2nd order security dilemma, information systems |
| Security is an important aspect of information systems. However, much of the current work in this area is concerned with first-order issues of the security problems. These first-order issues regard the direct threat against systems such as computer abuse, software unreliability, and natural disasters. These issues also regard the safeguards that may be deployed to protect systems from these direct threats. The second - order issues regard the impact of these safeguards on the organization. In particular organizational flexibility and adaptability may be affected. This is because predictability is an attribute of security, and organizational spontaneity implies a large degree of entropy. The paper discusses issues and aspects of managing adaptive systems security including adaptive safeguard techniques. |