Towards a security and privacy co-creation method

Cyber collaboration supports and increases the expansion of value co-creation amongst companies and customers by defining innovative business models and by exploiting new types of infrastructures like those dedicated to social media, collaborative workspaces, or e-supply chains for instance. This proliferation of new types of collaboration generates new types of security and privacy threats to be handled by the companies. The deployment of the appropriate controls to cope with the latter is of great value for the continuity of the day to day business. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate how security and privacy may be regarded as types of value and how they may be considered, in collaborative environments, through the lens of value co-creation. Acknowledging the similarities between security, privacy, and value, we afterwards propose a method to co-create security and privacy and we illustrate how the latter may be deployed in the frame of a financial case-study.