About Me

I am a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems in the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. I am also a SWUFE-University of Delaware Joint Educational Institute (JEI) Research Fellow and an Affiliated Faculty in the University of Delaware’s Institute for Financial Services Analytics.

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in cybersecurity and technology risk management. My research focuses on various aspects of cybersecurity management, including behavioral factors and firm-level causes and consequences of IT security failures, such as data breaches. Journals in which my research appears include MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, and MIT Sloan Management Review, among others. My work and opinions have been cited by numerous popular press outlets, including ABC News, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

I am currently a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly. I was previously an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly (2017-2021), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2019-2023), and Decision Sciences (2014-2018). I am a recipient of the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from MIS Quarterly (2019) and Reviewer of the Year Awards from both MIS Quarterly (2015) and Information Systems Research (2019). Most recently, I received the Outstanding PhD Alumni Award (2023) from the Fox School of Business, Temple University and became an Association for Information Systems (AIS) Distinguished Member - Cum Laude (2022).

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Business Logistics from Penn State University, a Master of Business Administration from LaSalle University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration (with a concentration in Management Information Systems) from Temple University’s Fox School of Business. Prior to my academic career, I was employed by Ford Motor Company as a cost accountant and financial systems analyst.