Mysore Open Forum (MOF) has organised a talk on ‘Beyond Cybersecurity: Behavioural Approaches to Information Assurance’ by Prof. H. Raghav Rao, AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security, Carlos Alvarez College of Business, The University of Texas, San Antonio, USA, at 10.30 am on Oct. 6 at Kalpa Kshetra Auditorium, #581/1, Vijayanagar 4th Stage, 1st Phase, Mysuru.

Profile: Dr. H.R. Rao was named the AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security at The University of Texas in January 2016. He also holds a courtesy appointment as a full Professor in the UTSA Department of Computer Science.

Before working at UTSA, Prof. Rao was the SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo. He graduated from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University, FMS Delhi (MBA) and IIT Kanpur (B.Tech).

Dr. Rao was the recipient of the AIS Fellow Award for 2021; the inaugural recipient of The Bright Internet Award for his contributions to the information systems discipline by KMIS, the Korea Society of Management Information Systems. In 2018, Rao was awarded the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award for significant service contributions to the field of information systems and information systems security. In Nov. 2016, he received the prestigious Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award (Class of 2016) for outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.

In his talk, Prof. Raghav Rao will discuss information assurance and cybersecurity.  While many people know about aspects of cybersecurity such as hackers and viruses, there is much more beyond these under the umbrella of Information Assurance (IA). 

IA concerns operations that protect information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality and nonrepudiation. In addition, it brings to attention human nature which is now a legitimate part of the study of cyber-security.

He will touch on various behavioural aspects of IA through various anecdotes. The talk is open to all. [Mob: 9449819536]