  Information and knowledge leakage has become a significant security risk to
Australian organizations. Each security incident in Australian business cost an
average US$\$$2.8 million. Furthermore, Australian organisations spend the
second most worldwide (US$\$$1.2 million each on average) on investigating and
assessing information breaches. The leakage of sensitive organizational
information occurs through different avenues, such as social media, cloud
computing and mobile devices. In this study, we (1) analyze the knowledge
leakage risk (KLR) caused by the use of mobile devices in knowledge-intensive
Australian organizations, (2) present a conceptual research model to explain
the determinants that influence KLR through the use of mobile devices grounded
in the literature, (3) conduct interviews with security and knowledge managers
to understand what strategies they use to mitigate KLR caused by the use of
mobile devices and (4) use content analysis and the conceptual model to frame
the preliminary findings from the interviews. Keywords: Knowledge leakage,
mobile devices, mobile contexts, knowledge leakage risk
