title: Do You Ignore Information Security in Your Journal Website?
abstract: Nowadays, web-based applications extend to all businesses due to their advantages and easy usability. The most important issue in web-based applications is security. Due to their advantages, most academic journals are now using these applications, with papers being submitted and published through their websites. As these websites are resources for knowledge, information security is primary for maintaining their integrity. In this opinion piece, we point out vulnerabilities in certain websites and introduce the potential for future threats. We intend to present how some journals are vulnerable and what will happen if a journal can be infected by attackers. This opinion is not a technical manual in information security, it is a short inspection that we did to improve the security of academic journals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. Mehdidadkhah@mail.um.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dadkhah
authors.affiliation: Progressive Science Institute, Box 5335, Berkeley, CA, 94705, USA.
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Borchardt
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lagzian
mesh_terms: D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000941:ethics*; D020407:Internet / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Information security; Online journal; Web application; Web-based academia