TIM Review January 2015: Cybersecurity

The editorial theme of the January 2015 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review focuses on Cybersecurity, with guest editor, Tony Bailetti, Director of Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program (TIM) and Executive Director (Acting) of the VENUS Cybersecurity Corporation.

In this issue, the authors of contribute to insights, a method, a model, and a case study.   

Mackenzie Adams is Vice President and Creative Director at SOMANDA, a consulting company. She and Maged Makramella are graduate students in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. In their article, they discuss the use of gamification methods that enable all employees and organizational leaders to play the roles of various types of attackers in an effort to reduce the number of successful attacks due to human vulnerability exploits.

Reza Shirazi is an Analyst Programmer at the Canada Revenue Agency, Information Technology Branch. His article contributes a model to predict the performance of botnet takedown initiatives and a set of hypotheses anchored around the model.

Mohamed Amin is a Solution Architect for Alcatel-Lucent Canada and Zaid Tariq is a Senior Network Engineer for Cisco Systems. In their article, they argue that high intrusiveness by car manufacturers in defining module interfaces and subcomponents for suppliers would lead to more secure cars.

Anas Al Natsheh is at the Centre for Measurement and Information Systems (CEMIS-Oulu) in Oulu, Finland, and at Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, also in Finland. Saheed Adebayo Gbadegeshin, Antti Rimpiläinen, Irna Imamovic-Tokalic and Andrea Zambrano are Project Researchers at the Kajaani University of Applied Sciences in Finland. Their article examines the challenges in commercializing high technologies successfully and sustainably using quantum key distribution (QKD) technology as a case study.

Walter Miron is a Director of Technology Strategy at TELUS Communications. His Q&A answers the question: Should the Internet be considered critical infrastructure?

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