TY - JOUR AB - The paper discusses the assignment of security clearances to employees in a security conscious organisation. New approaches are suggested for solving two major problems. First, full implementation of the “need‐to‐know” principle is provided by the introduction of data access statements (DAS) as part of an employee’s job description. Second, for the problem of setting up border points between different security clearances, the paper introduces a fuzzy set model. This model helps to solve this problem, effectively connecting it with the cost of security. VL - 8 IS - 5 SN - 0968-5227 DO - 10.1108/09685220010356247 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09685220010356247 AU - Janczewski Lech J. AU - Portougal Victor PY - 2000 Y1 - 2000/01/01 TI - “Need‐to‐know” principle and fuzzy security clearances modelling T2 - Information Management & Computer Security PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 210 EP - 217 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -