Abstract

Information Assurance (IA) concerns operations that protect information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and nonrepudiation. This includes providing for restoration of systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities. Much of the information assurance literature is technical in nature. However, it is important that use of technology must be shaped by social policies and legal and ethical issues. This talk will focus on social and behavioral approaches through classic case examples.
Profile

H. Raghav Rao, Ph.D
AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security


Ph.D. Purdue University
MBA Delhi University
B Tech Indian Institute of Technology



Dr. H.R. Rao was named the AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business in January 2016. He also holds a courtesy appointment as full professor in the UTSA Department of Computer Science. He graduated from Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. His interests are in the areas of management information systems, decision support systems, e-business, emergency response management systems and information assurance. He has chaired sessions at international conferences and presented numerous papers. He also has co-edited four books, including Information Assurance Security and Privacy Services and Information Assurance in Financial Services. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 technical papers, of which more than 125 are published in archival journals.


In November 2016, Professor Rao received the prestigious Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award (Class of 2016) for outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.


Rao's work has received best paper and best paper runner up awards at ISR, AMCIS and ICIS. He has received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and the Canadian Embassy. He also received the Fulbright fellowship in 2004.


Rao is chair of IFIP WG 8.11/11.13, the working group for Information Systems Security Research. He is co-editor in chief of Information Systems Frontiers, advisory editor of Decision Support Systems, associate editor of ACM TMIS and senior editor at MIS Quarterly.


He has placed Ph.D. students at Sogang U, UNCG, ASU, USF, FAU, MSU, OK State, FSU, Penn State, University of Warwick and others.


Rao was ranked No. 3 in publication productivity internationally in a 2011 Communications of the Association for Information Systems study. In March 2017, Rao's h-index was 50 and his i-10 index was 144. He is a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy.


CV: http://business.utsa.edu/faculty/hrrao/