Always on guard: how a corporate immune system can engage full-spectrum risks – a conceptual framework to re-engineer organizational capability and culture

Hills, M. (2017) Always on guard: how a corporate immune system can engage full-spectrum risks – a conceptual framework to re-engineer organizational capability and culture. In: Bajgoric, N. (ed.) Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Modern Organizations. London: IGI Global. pp. 41-59.

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Abstract:	This chapter advances the idea that the modern organization can become immune to a full spectrum of risks by re-engineering its organizational capability and culture. Given the accepted role of people in causing or escalating technical risk – the requirement to achieve ‘always on' socio-technical protection poses a significant challenge. However, an enterprise's human resources offer a massive potential to detect and report risk and there is also substantial competitive advantage available to the organization which develops, integrates, leverages and acts on intelligence gained from a suite of socio-technical sensors and sense-making processes. The human resources and culture of an organization, properly configured, could comprise a powerful innate (constant) and adaptive (active) immune system. The chapter will provide the reader with a framework for how such an immune capability could be integrated into an organization that takes seriously the requirement to be ‘always on' – protected from any form or blend of socio-technical threat.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Cyber security, human factors, cultural, immunity, continuity
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV6001 Criminology > HV6251 Crimes and offences > HV6773 Computer crime. Hacking Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science > QA76.9.A25 Computer security H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management
Creators:	Hills, Mils
Editors:	Bajgoric, Nijaz
Publisher:	IGI Global
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Business & Law > International Strategy & Business Research Institutes > Institute of Logistics, Infrastructure, Supply & Transport University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Business & Law > Business University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Institute for Logistics, Infrastructure, Supply, Travel and Transport
Date:	December 2017
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 41-59
Title of Book:	Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Modern Organizations
Place of Publication:	London
Number of Pages:	257
Language:	English
ISBN:	9781522537045
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3704-5
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/alway...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10010

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