Warkentin, Merrill

Merrill Warkentin is Professor of MIS and John and Carole Ferguson Notable Scholar in the College of Business at Mississippi State University, where he is also a member of the research staff of the Center for Computer Security Research. He has published over 230 manuscripts, including over 50 journal articles. His research, primarily in computer security management, eCommerce/eGovernment, and virtual teams (computer-mediated collaborative systems), has appeared in such journals as MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM, Communications of the AIS, The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, Information Systems Management, and others. Professor Warkentin is the author or editor of six books, including Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues.

He is currently an Associate Editor (AE) of MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Management, Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Information Systems Security, and Journal of Information Science and Technology, and has previously served as AE of other journals. He has Guest Edited several journal special issues, including the European Journal of Information Systems special issue on IS Security in 2009, and has served as an AE for the MIS Quarterly special issue on information security and as ad hoc AE for other security papers at MISQ. He has served on several editorial review boards, and currently serves on the board of the Journal of Computer Information Systems and the editorial advisory board of Information Management and Computer Security. He has held leadership positions for numerous international information security conferences, including Program Chair for WISE2007 and WISP2009, Program Chair for the 2009 IFIP Workshop on IS Security Research, AE at ICIS four times (Security Track), Track Chair at DSI three times (including Security Track in 2008), Security Track Chair at ECIS2012 and Program Committee member of over a dozen international conferences (WISP, WEB, WITS, ICEIS, etc.).

Dr. Warkentin has served as a consultant to numerous companies and organizations, and has been a featured speaker at over one hundred industry association meetings, executive development seminars, and academic conferences. He has been a Lecturer at the Army Logistics Management College and was named a "National Distinguished Lecturer" by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has been a visiting professor or invited speaker at numerous universities, including Florida State, LSU, Georgia State, Indiana, and Clemson. He has earned various recognitions for his teaching at every level from intro Freshman courses to doctoral research seminars - his primary focus has been teaching Systems Analysis classes and Research Design seminars. His research has been funded by the UN, by various US federal agencies (US Navy, Homeland Security, etc.), and by several companies, including IBM. He was previously on the faculty at George Mason University and held the Reisman Research Professorship at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was also the Director of MIS and eCommerce programs. Professor Warkentin's Ph.D. in MIS is from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He can be reached at mwarkentin@acm.org.