CFP: HICSS security/privacy minitrack

[Warkentin, Merrill]

Call for Papers for security/privacy papers - 2026 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

This mini-track investigates behavioral aspects of IS security and privacy, focusing on human-centric risks, decision-making processes, and strategies to mitigate internal and external threats. Topics include compliance, threat responses, and the influence of emerging technologies like AI and generative tools.  The focus is on internal and external threats influenced by human behavior. This includes research on fear appeals and motivation in security compliance, generative AI's role in mitigating threats, cognitive heuristics and decision-making in phishing and cyber resilience, and behavioral (cognitive or affective) biases affecting IS security.

With that in mind, we are calling for papers taking a variety of approaches related to topics including, but not limited to:

*               Creative rigorous investigations of actual user security behavior, both positive and negative
*               Detecting and mitigating insider threats
*               The impact of AI on personal data privacy and regulatory responses
*               Security policy compliance research - motivations, antecedents, levers of influence
*               Research contrasting policy compliance with actual secure behaviors
*               Analysis of known and unknown modes and vectors of internal and external attack
*               Explorations of the impact of generative AI and ML/LLM on security outcomes, for all stakeholders, including employees, citizens and organizations.
*               SETA (security education, training, and awareness) programs
*               Frameworks for assessing the effectiveness of interventions that intend to reduce organizational vulnerability to attacks
*               Cyber security professionals harnessing AI to enhance defense
*               Modeling of security and privacy behavioral phenomena and relationships
*               Studies examining privacy-related behaviors from a "privacy paradox" perspective
*               Merging methodological topics related to addressing research strategies in IS security
*               Translational science perspectives and strategies for IS security/privacy research
*               Theory development, theory building, and theory testing in information security
*               Neurosecurity (NeuroIS) investigations of information security behavior
*               Explorations of emerging issues related to the privacy and security of the "Internet of Things" (ioT)
*               Role of AI in facilitating cybersecurity defenses
*               Consumer perceptions of privacy and trust in digital platforms

Important: each coauthor of a paper submitted to our mini-track is obligated to review at least one other paper for the mini-track. Failure of any one coauthor to review for the mini-track may result in the rejection of the coauthor's paper from the mini-track.

**Fast Track to Journal Publication** (at the discretion of minitrack chairs):
Selected papers from this mini track will be invited to submit revised manuscripts to be fast tracked by the mini-track chairs to the Journal of Intellectual Capital (Emerald Publishing) - https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jic?id=jic

Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/

Author Guidelines:  http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/

IMPORTANT DATES
* April 15: Paper submission commences
* June 15: Paper submission deadline
* August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript
* October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS

Minitrack Co-Chairs - Contact Info

Merrill Warkentin (Primary Contact)
Department of Management and Information Systems
College of Business
Mississippi State University
m.warkentin at msstate.edu<mailto:m.warkentin at msstate.edu>

Karen Renaud
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Strathclyde University
karen.renaud at strath.ac.uk<mailto:karen.renaud at strath.ac.uk>

Allen C. Johnston
Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science
Culverhouse College of Commerce
University of Alabama
acjohnston5 at ua.edu<mailto:acjohnston5 at ua.edu>

Anthony Vance
Department of Business Information Technology
Pamplin College of Business
anthonyvance at vt.edu<mailto:anthonyvance at vt.edu>


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