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Education

• PhD, Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001

Group Affiliations

• IFIP Working Group 8.11/11.13, “Information Systems Security Research — 2013
• Special Interest Group on Security (SIGSEC), Association for Information Systems — 2013
• UWHEN-Utah Women in Higher Education Network — 2010
• Association of Information Systems — 2001

Selected Publications

• "The Fog of Warnings: How Non-security-related Notifications Diminish the Efficacy of Security Warnings", MIS Quarterly, 2025
• "Barriers to a Cybersecurity Career: Analysis across Career Stage and Gender", Computers & Security, 2023
• "Embracing Brain and Behavior: Designing Programs of Complementary Neurophysiological and Behavioral Studies", Information Systems Journal, Wiley, 2022
• "Tuning Out Security Warnings: A Longitudinal Examination of Habituation through fMRI, Eye Tracking, and Field Experiments", MIS Quarterly, 2018
• "What Do We Really Know about How Habituation to Warnings Occurs Over Time? A Longitudinal fMRI Study of Habituation and Polymorphic Warnings", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM, 2017
• "From Warning to Wallpaper: Why the Brain Habituates to Security Warnings", Journal of Management Information Systems, Edition 3, Volume 30, Pages 713-743, 2016
• "Your Memory is Working Against You:  How Eye Tracking and Memory Explain Habituation to Security Warnings", Decision Support Systems, Volume 92, Pages 3-13, 2016
• "How Users Perceive and Respond to Security Messages: A NeuroIS Research Agenda and Empirical Study", European Journal of Information Systems, Edition 4, Volume 25, Pages 364-390, 2016
• "How Polymorphic Warnings Reduce Habituation in the Brain—Insights from an fMRI Study", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Seoul, 2015
• "Users Aren’t (Necessarily) Lazy: Using NeuroIS to Explain Habituation to Security Warnings", International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS, Auckland, 2014
• "Using Measures of Risk Perception to Predict Information Security Behavior: Insights from Electroencephalography (EEG)", Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Edition 10, Volume 15, Pages pp. 679-722, 2014

Experience

Academic - Post-Secondary

• Adjunct Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000–2001

Other

• Adjunct Faculty, Duquesne University, 2000–2001

Professional

• Consultant, Andersen Consulting (Accenture), 1995–1997

Awards

• IB and Eleanor Romney Distinguished Professorship, 2021
• AIS Technology Vision Award, Association for Information Systems, 2020
• J. Owen Cherrington Faculty Service Award, BYU Information Systems Department, 2020
• Special Recognition Award, Utah Women in Higher Education Network (UWHEN), 2019
• FWA Scholarship Award, BYU Faculty Women's Association, 2018
• Scholarly Excellence Award, Marriott School, 2018

Languages

• Japanese

Administrative Assignments

• Associate Dean — 2020–2025
• Department Chair — 2017–2020

BYU Citizenship

• Faculty Advisory Council — Committee/Council Chair — April 2011–May 2013
• Faculty Advisory Council — Committee/Council Member — August 2010–May 2013

Professional Citizenship

• AMCIS 2024, Other, December 2022
• Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, Editorial Review Board Member, June 2016