Call for Papers

The 15th 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 thirteen 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).

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 which have been published in journals). Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Special Issue of the Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process, and People. 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 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

Submission Information

Format: The paper length requirement is 15–25 pages double spaced for double-blind review. Please use the following template for the camera-ready version.
Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DRW2023

Submission deadline: ~~March 1~~ March 13, 2023
Notification to authors: ~~April 1~~ April 10, 2023
Deadline for final papers: May 5, 2023 (to be distributed to workshop attendees in advance)
Attending participants must register by April 30, 2023 (early registration)
Late registration permitted until May 5, 2023 (higher fee).

Manuscripts will be prescreened by the program chairs 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.

Conference Logistics

General Chair
Karen Renaud, University of Strathclyde

Program Co-Chairs
Jacques Ophoff, Abertay University
Justin Giboney, Brigham Young University
Alexandra Durcikova, University of Oklahoma (Continuity Chair)

For general questions about the workshop, please contact Karen Renaud (karen.renaud@strath.ac.uk).
For questions about the program, please contact Jacques Ophoff (j.ophoff@abertay.ac.uk).

Workshop Date and Location

The workshop, hosted by the University of Strathclyde, will take place on June 22-23, 2023 at the Rosslea Hall Hotel near Glasgow, Scotland. The nearest airport is Glasgow International Airport, which is 39 minutes (25 miles) away from the venue.

Sponsorship

The University of Strathclyde 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 https://ifip.byu.edu/ for more information on the IFIP Working Group 8.11/11.13 and past workshop proceedings.