The 16th Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research will continue the efforts to advance the discipline of information systems security through the creation, dissemination, and preservation of well-formed research, following the success of the first fifteen Information Systems Security Research Workshops (University of Cape Town, 2009; Bentley University, 2010; Virginia Tech, 2011; Brigham Young University, 2012; University at Buffalo, 2013; Newcastle University, 2014; University of Delaware, 2015; University of New Mexico, 2016; University of South Florida, 2017; University of Cape Town, 2018; Louisiana Tech University, 2019; Iowa State University, 2020; University of Texas at San Antonio, 2021; University of Colorado – Denver, 2022; University of Strathclyde, 2023).

The active discussions in the workshop are intended to provide participants with specific and actionable feedback on their research. We anticipate that this process will facilitate the successful development of workshop papers for further consideration in important journals (See https://ifip.byu.edu/ for past DRW papers that have been published in journals). High-quality papers will be fast-tracked to the Journal of Intellectual Capital. Selection for the workshop is competitive, and only authors of the accepted papers and the active working group members will be invited to participate.

Anchoring the workshop to information systems means that the research will attend to and extend the social, organizational, and managerial literature in the focal area. Note that this is not an appropriate venue for papers with a purely technical, design-science, or econometric approach. While we assume an effective foundation in information security technology, we regard information systems risk broadly, for example, computer crime, employee misconduct, cyber warfare, cyber terrorism, human error and/or accident, natural events, etc. We also address information systems security broadly, for example, policies and policy compliance, diverse security behaviors, privacy, awareness, strategy, audit, planning, and control. These and related research topics will be the focus of this workshop.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The 2024 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research Topics may include (but are not limited to):

• Theoretical and empirical analyses of information security behavior
• Adoption, use, and continuance of information security technologies and policies
• Compliance with information security and privacy policies, procedures, and regulations
• Investigations of computer crime and security violations
• Motivators and inhibitors of employee computer crime
• Forensic analysis of security breaches and computer crimes
• Individual, organizational, and group information privacy concerns and behaviors
• Legal, societal, and ethical issues in information security
• Neurosecurity (NeuroIS) investigations of information security behavior
• Behavioral analyses of design science treatments enhancing or balancing security and privacy tradeoffs

CONFERENCE LOGISTICS

General Chairs

• Herb Mattord and Mike Whitman, Kennesaw State University

Program Co-Chairs (alphabetically)

• Hwee-Joo Kam, University of Tampa
• Phil Menard, The University of Texas at San Antonio
• Ali Vedadi, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

• Format: The paper length requirement is 15 – 25 pages double-spaced for double-blind review
• Submission deadline: June 21, 2024 June 30, 2024
• Notification to authors: August 15, 2024
• Deadline for final papers: September 15, 2024 (to be distributed to workshop attendees in advance)
• Attending participants must register by September 15, 2024 (Registration fee: $200 for faculty; $75 for students)
• Late registration ends October 3, 2024 (+$50)

The program chairs will prescreen manuscripts to ensure that all papers sent to reviewers are reasonably complete, well-formed, and appropriate to the scope and mission of the workshop. Double-blind reviews will follow for prescreened papers. Authors can submit the manuscripts as “early stage” or “completed papers.” Manuscripts must be anonymous for the review process.

In recognition that the review process greatly relies upon a scarce resource of the services of reviewers, authors, by the act of submission, are implicitly promising to serve as a reviewer on one to two conference papers, if requested.

For general questions about the workshop, please contact Herb Mattord (hmattord@kennesaw.edu ) or Mike Whitman (mwhitman@kennesaw.edu).

For questions about the program, please contact Hwee-Joo Kam (hkam@ut.edu), Phil Menard (philip.menard@utsa.edu), or Ali Vedadi (avedadi@utk.edu).

WORKSHOP DATE AND LOCATION

The workshop, hosted by Kennesaw State University, will take place on October 4-5, 2024, at the KSU Center, 3333 Busbee Dr. NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144. The nearest airport is Hartfield-Jackson International Atlanta Airport, which is 45 minutes away from the workshop location.

SPONSORSHIP

The Center for Cybersecurity Education and Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University sponsors this event.

The IFIP Working Group 8.11/11.13 holds The Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research annually. WG 8.11/11.13 (Anthony Vance, Chair; Teju Herath, Vice-Chair) is the IFIP Working Group on Information Systems Security Research. Please visit http://ifip.byu.edu for more information on the IFIP Working Group 8.11/11.13 and past workshop proceedings.