Academics and Educators of Security Management Interest Group

This might be useful for teaching purposes -- back in the mid-2000s, ASIS recognized that physical and cybersecurity were on a path towards security convergence, and they made connections with ISACA and ISSA (two information security professional groups) to form the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management. However, this group was a failure, and broke up a few years after formation, even though history has shown that the ongoing trend of security convergence was correctly identified. (Apparently at the time of the publication of this paper, the group's last, ISSA had already left the alliance.)

I'm not sure if it would be too pretentious for a security management course, but perhaps this could be used to start a conversation about "paradigm shifts" using Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, or if that seems inappropriate, as an introduction to change management and how stakeholders with competing interests can sometimes work against shared security goals.

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