Speaker: Qing Hu, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives and Innovation，Zicklin School of Business，Baruch College，The City University of New York
Host：Prof. Cai Shun
Time：July 16th, 2016, 4:00 pm
Venue: J1-207
Title：The Role of Self-Control in Information Security Violations:
Insights from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Abstract：
Self-control has been identified as a major factor influencing individual behavior in social science, neuroscience, criminology, and information security literatures. In this study, we first developed and validated a novel paradigm suitable for use with event-related potentials (ERPs) in scenario-based laboratory experiments of decision making in the context of information security. We then used this paradigm to examine the association between individual differences in self-control and ERPs elicited while individuals deliberated over violations of information security policies. Our results show that the left and right hemispheres of the brain were involved in decision making, and that the participants with low self-control had lower levels of neural recruitment in both hemispheres relative to those with high self-control. This was especially the case for regions in or near dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and inferior frontal cortex (IFC). These results extend the findings in neuroscience literature related to the role of self-control in decision making in general, and validate a new paradigm for use with the EEG/ERP technique to examine theoretical questions in information security and criminology research.
Speaker's CV：
Dr. Hu is Professor of Information Systems and Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives and Innovation in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College – The City University of New York. He oversees all academic affairs and leads initiatives for developing new and innovative academic programs in the Zicklin School of Business and with global partners. Prior to joining CUNY in 2015, he served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research and hold the title of Union Pacific Professor in Information Systems in the College of Business at Iowa State University.
Dr. Hu teaches IT strategy, information security, and systems development at graduate and undergraduate levels. His research primarily focuses on cybersecurity and impact of IT on organizational strategy, culture, and performance. He has published over 130 research articles in academic journals, conferences, and books, and has been an invited speaker at universities and academic conferences around the world. His work has been cited over 5,000 times according to Google Scholar, and won the Citation of Excellence Award twice (2011 and 2014) from Emerald Group Publishing. He is a leading scholar in the world on behavioral cybersecurity research, and his work has been published in premier academic journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, California Management Review, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, He served as an ad hoc associate editor for MIS Quarterly and European Journal of Information Systems and was on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
He earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Miami, and his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Lanzhou University of Technology and the Chinese Academy of Machinery Science and Technology respectively. He had been a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and Software Engineer, and consultant for companies on doing business in China and managing cybersecurity from socio-technical approaches.
