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Humayun Zafar

Assistant Professor of Information Security and Assurance

Humayun Zafar

Ph.D – The University of Texas at San Antonio

MS – Rochester Institute of Technology

BS – St. Mary's University

 

 
 

Department of Information Systems

Clendenin Building 3029 770.420.4424
hzafar@kennesaw.edu Linked-In

 

Research & Teaching Areas
- IT Performance
- IT Strategy
- Information privacy and security

Academic Positions
- Kennesaw State University
- The University of Texas at San Antonio

Professional Experience, Leadership & Service
- University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- Dale Laboratories

Representative Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Zafar, Humayun (forthcoming) “Security Risk Management at a Fortune 500 Firm: A Case Study” Journal of Information Privacy and Security.

Zafar, Humayun (forthcoming) “Human Resource Information Systems: Information Security Concerns for Organizations” Human Resource Management Review.

Zafar, Humayun; Ko, Myung; and Osei-Bryson, Kweku-Muata (2012) “Financial Impact of Information Security Breaches on Breached Firms and their Non-Breached Competitors” Information Resources Management Journal. Vol. 25, Issue: 1, pp 21-37, doi:10.4018/irmj.2012010102

Zafar, Humayun; Clark, Jan Guynes; and Ko, Myung S. (2011) “An Exploration of Human Resource Management Information Systems Security” Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets. Vol. 3, Article 28, pp 489-510. http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jekem/vol3/iss1/28

Zafar, Humayun, and Clark, Jan. G. (2009). “Current State of Information Security Research in IS” Communications of the Association for Information Systems. Vol. 24, Article 34, pp 557-596. http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol24/iss1/34 (In the most popular papers list between June 2009 and January 2010).

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Zafar, Humayun; Clark, Jan G.; Ko, Myung; and Au, Yoris. A. (2011). “Critical Success Factors for an Effective Security Risk Management Program: An Exploratory Case Study at a Fortune 500 Firm.” Proceedings of the Seventeenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Detroit, Michigan. August 4 – 7. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2011_submissions/35

Zafar, Humayun; Ko, Myung; and Osei-Bryson, Kweku-Muata.(2011). “Does a CIO Matter? Investigating the Impact of IT Security Breaches on Firm Performance using Tobin’s q.” Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, Hawaii, January 4 – 7. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2011.171

Zafar, Humayun, and Au, Yoris. A. (2009). “The Economic Ramifications of Strategic IT Security Information Sharing in the Financial Services Industry.” Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California. August 6 – 9. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2009/281

Zafar, Humayun; Ko, Myung; and Osei-Bryson, Kweku-Muata. (2009). “Intra-Industry Effects of Information Security Breaches on Firm Performance.” Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California. August 6 – 9. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2009/590

 

 
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