The Characteristics of Access Control Model Towards Securing Collaborative Knowledge Management System: Empirical Verification

Knowledge Management System (KMS) is such an application of computer based communications and information systems that grant sharing and transferring knowledge effectively; furthermore with the evolution of Internet, KMS has improved its knowledge process and activities where it can be accessed with varied form of technologies such as email, video conferencing and so forth, from dispersed geographical area. Hence, security becomes major issue as knowledge is an intellectual property of an organization and it must be well managed. Mostly the issues are regard to the restriction of the access permission to knowledge. Therefore, there is a need to construct a security model towards secure KMS, for managing access restriction in order to avoid unauthorized access as well as to protect knowledge throughout Knowledge Management (KM) activities. This research found that Access Control Model (ACM) is competent to overcome these issues, thus, this paper is to SCIREA Journal of Computer http://www.scirea.org/journal/Computer February 6, 2017 Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2017