The rating model of corporate information for economic security activities

Abstract

Industrial technology outflow incidents negatively affect corporations, the industry, and countries. Yet, corporate information security is weak, and there is low awareness of the issue’s seriousness. This study developed a rating model that can distinguish “importance” based on an objective standard. Fourteen components that can evaluate the importance of corporate information were derived from the related literature and verified for validity and reliability using factor analysis to organize final rating factors, such as Cost of Information Creation, Level of Information, Information Utilization, Effect of Internal Utilization, and Risk of External Leakage. A secondary survey targeted field experts to set the relative weights between five rating factors and give the relative weights for Effect of Internal Utilization Risk of External Leakage. A corporate information classification system was then designed to grades importance using the five factors. A final rating model of corporate information is suggested by defining security activity by level, granted by grade. This model is designed for corporate use and is expected to benefit economic security activity.