Editorial Preface

Abstract

The fourth issue of Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS), 2014, contains two regular research papers and a research essay special section containing three interesting research essays. The first regular article titled, “Job Quitters, Information Security Awareness, and Knowledge Management Strategies” by Hongbo Lyu and Justin Zhang talks about a unique set of people: Job Quitters. A lack of theory in this area is what makes the article interesting. When the potential security threat comes from Job Quitters, Lyu and Zhang find that the firm should implement full knowledge management initiatives to achieve a knowledge management performance quotient as high as possible under certain conditions. The article also provides initial guidance on knowledge management strategy to security practitioners. The second regular contribution titled, “The Application of Keystroke Analysis for Physical Security: A Field Experiment” by Christopher S. Leberknight and Michael L. Recce is on the role of keystroke analysis as a behavioral biometric analysis using a real world environment. It extends the previous work by investigating the classification performance of keystroke analysis using a biometric keypad and several novel typing features during a 5-week field experiment. The article observes that typing patterns stabilize with very little variation between different time periods. The Research Essay special section that follows contains three research essays on physical security related issues. This special section starts with an introduction by Gaurav Gupta and Indranil Bose (Associate Editor, JIPS). Three research essays follow this introduction. Since information and communication technologies have become a part of surveillance infrastructures, new privacy and security issues arise. In order to cope with these challenges, the readers of JIPS may need to have an understanding of these physical security issues. In the Book Review section, Adolfo Coronado reviews a book titled, “Information Assurance for the Enterprise: A Roadmap to Information Security”, written by C. Schou and D. Shoemaker. Dr. Coronado observes that “The aim of this book is to take a management role, therefore, the topics are introduced with a management emphasis and not a technical perspective.” We acknowledge services of JIPS reviewers as well as outside reviewers for the journal. Thanks are also due to our editorial board members and associate editors for their untiring efforts to provide critical reviews in a timely manner. Thanks to Dr. Choton Basu (University of Wisconsin Whitewater) for conducting a few interviews for JIPS, in spite of his busy schedule. Thanks also to Dr. Chuleeporn Changchit (Texas A&M, Corpus Christi) for routinely forwarding articles sent to her by authors. Finally, thanks are due to our publisher who helped us in every possible way. Happy holidays and a happy new year to you all!