Abstract—Technological innovation comprises of creating new knowledge and generating technical ideas. To be globally competitive, it is important for every organization to be innovative. For university, it is necessary to develop and manage institution as knowledge based organization. The website namely Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi research working group is as the knowledge portal by retrieving the necessary knowledge and establishing wide contact within and outside the organization, and for converting the value of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. The practical mechanisms security administering was applied to the website. Hardware control such as firewalls intrusion detection system was followed the university policy. The cryptography which are key exchange protocol with public key and the digital signature was used for authentication and the authorization part. The access data control is for preventing SQL injection attack. The program for preventing the forbidden information was built. The user’s side protection was concentrates not only visible to and invoked by users of operating systems but also the security was from the operating system designer. The penetration test and continuing attention were periodically done as the description of current situation and as the plan for activity improvement.

Index Terms—authentication, authorization, cryptography, knowledge management system, website security administering

Cite: Suwarin Pattamavorakun, Jaturapith Krohkaew, and Chawanwit Poolsri, "Practical Administering Security to the University Research Working Group Knowledge Management System Website," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 308-312, September 2013. doi: 10.12720/joams.1.3.308-312