Active Security in AIE by Will Johnson.
From the post:
Information retrieval systems have classically been interested in simply retrieving information based on a user’s query. Typically these applications were going after data that was either public, such as job listings, or semi-private, such as research papers that were viewable by anyone with an account. Most enterprise data does not fit into either of these categories, though.
Content like last year’s performance reviews, employee salary information or M&A research is usually only accessible by a select group(s) of people within an organization. Any system that provides access to this information needs to respect those same permission structures in order to be viable inside a company.
The discussion of late versus early security is illustrative even if you have no interest in the patented solution that follows that discussion.
Security is an issue that customers are mindful of and to be taken seriously, information systems, including topic map systems, had better be ready for the discussion.