Protecting knowledge - a novel security awareness topic
January's security awareness topic is 'protecting knowledge'. By 'knowledge' we mean intangible forms of information such as ideas, concepts, thoughts, expertise, experience, perception, understanding and so forth, distributed throughout the organization in the brains of employees and other workers such as contractors and consultants. Along with various other intangible forms of information, knowledge constitutes an extremely valuable category of corporate asset. Think about the creative designs and inventions that may one day become profitable new products and efficient production processes: they all start as concepts, thoughts and ideas in workers’ heads. The gems that we call “skills” and “expertise”, plus the education and work experience so proudly listed on our résumés, are enormously important factors when recruiting or promoting employees, while consultants make a business by selling their intellectual capacity and wisdom. If you accept that valuable ass...