General Information
Biography
Deanna House, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis department in the College of Information Science and Technology and co-Director of the Nebraska Deterrence Lab at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is a research fellow for NSRI and a professor and research mentor for the USSTRATCOM Fellows program. She graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a PhD in Information Systems. Dr. House worked in Human Resources as a Business Systems Analyst prior to her time in academia. Her research interests are related to the behavioral aspects of cybersecurity and the protective and preventative measures performed by users, governments, military, and organizations. Dr. House also conducts research in and teaches quantitative risk management. Additionally, she worked as a researcher/co-PI (with M.Black (PI) and L.Obradovic(co-PI) on NCITE Project 10/Year2: Training and Education Research and Implementation Strategies for the Homeland Security Intelligence Community to understand how to bring technology and cybersecurity to the existing and future workforce intelligence community. She has published in journals such as Computers & Security, Journal of Cybersecurity, Behaviour and Information Technology, Applied Economics, and Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research and presented at conferences such as International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Dewald Roode Workshop, Midwest AIS, Southern AIS, and The Lilly Conference. Dr. House also presents at the regional and national level on topics related to the intersection of technology and ethics and also quantitative risk.
Teaching Interests
Risk Management; Policy, Privacy, & Governance; Cybersecurity; Systems Analysis and Design; Information Security Management;Selected Teaching Tools:As an Academic Partner of Visual Paradigm, University of Nebraska at Omaha is granted the use of Visual Paradigm Online for drawing technical diagrams (UML, ERD, DFD, etc) and business diagrams (BPMN, ArchiMate)
Research Interests
Behavioral Information Security; Privacy; Quantitative Risk; Critical Infrastructure; Deterrence
Education
Other, Iowa Western Community College, Computer Programming, 1999
BS, Bellevue University, Management of Human Resources, 2002
MS, University of Nebraska at Omaha, MIS, 2006
Ph D, University of Texas at Arlington, Information Systems, Operations Management, 2013
Licensures and Certifications
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), ISACA, 02/11/2021 - 01/31/2025
Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
Selected Publications
Renaud, Karen, House, Deanna, Herath, Teju. It takes a Society to Protect Children’s Privacy Rights., ifip.
House, Deanna, Giordano, Gabriel. 2020. Politeness in Computer-Mediated Communications., Computers & Security, 99.
House, Deanna, Raja, MK. 2020. Phishing: Message Appraisal and the Exploration of Fear and Self-Confidence., Behaviour and Information Technology, 39, 11, 1204 - 1224.
Sun, J, Song, S, House, Deanna, Kwon, M. 2019. Role of gender differences on individuals’ responses to electronic word-of-mouth in social interactions, Applied Economics, 50, 28, 3001 - 3014.
House, Deanna. 2018. Switching from a Semi-Computerized to an Online Employment Application System: A Case Study, Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research.