Twenty-second International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations

Abstract

Vaccination in many countries, such as USA, may permit a more rapid return to normal for Global live entertainment, extreme sports, and, of course, concurrent “reboot“ of global movie, TV, and documentary productions. Major artists such as KISS, Billy Joel, GunsNRoses and others have rescheduled their global tours for a “reboot” in late 2021. However, in addition to biosecurity and infectious disease hygiene risk management required to protect artists, tour managers and on-tour teams, newer, unforeseen “cyber hygiene” threats also present. Media production companies must gather and retain more-and more detailed- medical, immunization and personally identifiable information ( “PII” ) including vaccine status of famous artists and principals, for new travel vaccine passport initiatives, such as by “IATA”. A significant threat includes “Social Engineering, “ or art of exploiting human flaws to achieve a malicious objective. Artists, entertainers, and global media personalities are especially high value targets, as “phishing” and other social engineering efforts attach with purpose to access sensitive data preying particularly upon the human tendency towards trust. This is a study which reviews, in a global live entertainment threat analysis, efforts of and protective factors against Cyber criminals inducing their victims to break security protocol forfeiting confidential information propitious for a more targeted attack. Mitigating risks that targets are manipulated to involuntarily infect and sabotage the system themselves. Organizations must adopt a knowledge management approach to Bio-Cyber security, data classification/data loss prevention, and “learn” to align to global best practices like ISO 27701, 27001, GDPR etc.