School of Science and Technology

Call for Papers

The 17th 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; Kennesaw State University, 2024).

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.

Topic of Interest
The 2025 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research Topics may include (but 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
• The behavioral intersection of cybersecurity/privacy research and AI/ML advancements

Submission Information

• Format: The paper length requirement is 15-25 pages double-spaced for double-blind review.
• Submission deadline: March 14, 2025
• Notification to authors: April 11, 2025
• Deadline for final papers: May 5, 2025 (to be distributed to workshop attendees in advance)
• Registration: Attending participants must register by May 1, 2025
• Late registration: May 12, 2025
• Paper submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=drw2025

Conference Logistics

General Chair:

• Patrick Kanyi Wamuyu, United States International University-Africa, pwamuyu@usiu.ac.ke

Program Co-Chairs:

• Ersin Dincelli, University of Colorado Denver, ersin.dincelli@ucdenver.edu
• Philip Menard, University of Texas at San Antonio (Continuity Chair), philip.menard@utsa.edu

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 Patrick Kanyi Wamuyu. For questions about the program, please contact Ersin Dincelli.

Workshop Date and Location

The workshop, hosted by United States International University (USIU)-Africa, will take place on June 23-24, 2025. Several hotels are located near the university, including Safari Park Hotel, which is within walking distance.

Sponsorship

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.