Episode 14

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18th Aug 2022

Cybersecurity Regulation and Maturity with Dr. Jeffrey Proudfoot

In this episode of Cyber Ways, Dr. Jeffrey Proudfoot of Bentley University joins Tom and Craig to discuss his research on how cybersecurity regulations affect cybersecurity maturity. Dr. Proudfoot is collaborating with Dr. Stuart Madnick of MIT's Sloan School of Business on this program of research.

Dr. Proudfoot is an associate professor on information and process management in Bentley’s business school and is also a research affiliate at MIT’s "Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan" research group. He holds a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Arizona. Dr. Proudfoot’s research focuses on various aspects of cybersecurity. He has published over 40 scholarly works, including articles in some of our top journals, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Journal of Management Information Systems. He has also received over $1 million in research funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation.

Citation: Proudfoot, J. and Madnick, S. (2022). Regulatory facilitators and impediments impacting cybersecurity maturity, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Minneapolis.

Cyber Ways is brought to you by the Center for Information Assurance, which is housed in the College of Business at Louisiana Tech University. The podcast is made possible through a "Just Business Grant," which is funded by the University's generous donors.

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Cyber Ways Podcast
The Cyber Ways Podcast brings academic cyber security research into the "real world." We interview top academic researchers to find how their research can be put into practice by cyber security professionals. Our focus is on behavioral aspects of cyber security. Occasionally, we touch on related topics, such as information privacy and surveillance.Each episode discusses one published, peer-reviewed article to reveal the practical implications of the research. Your hosts, Tom Stafford and Craig Van Slyke, are both widely published information systems academics who keep one foot in the world of practice.The Cyber Ways Podcast is brought to you by the Center for Information Assurance at the Louisiana Tech University's College of Business. The Cyber Ways podcast is funded through a Just Business grant, made possible through the generosity of donors to the Louisiana Tech University College of Business.

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Dr. Tom Stafford and Dr. Craig Van Slyke are both widely published information systems academics who keep one foot in the world of practice.

Stafford serves as editor-in-chief of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, the longest continually-published MIS journal, and has previously edited 13 special issues of notable journals including Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions, and MIS Quarterly. He co-chaired the 2018 Americas Conference for Information Systems and chaired 2019 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research. He has been selected to serve as the chair for the 2025 International Conference for Information Systems, one of the most notable yearly research meetings in the field of business technology.

Van Slyke, former dean of the W.A. Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University, has published over 40 articles in respected academic journals including Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, European Journal of Information Systems, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems. His fourth co-authored textbook, “Information Systems in Business: An Experiential Approach,” is in its fourth edition, and his first trade book, “On Leadership and Life: Essays on Leading and Living Well,” was published in 2017.