Freshman class

Cyber security

Sam Ransbotham, assistant professor of information systems

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Representative publication: "Choice and Chance: A Conceptual Model of Paths to Information Security Compromise" (with S. Mitra), Information Systems Research, 2009

I study information systems security, and am currently working on several projects involving statistical analyses of intrusion detection system logs, which will provide insights about the pathways to system compromise, the effectiveness of security analysts' incentive mechanisms, and the exploitation of vulnerabilities in open source software.