Strengthening the Weakest Link - The emergence of Human Centric Information Security

Bin Mai

Dr. Bin Mai is currently the program chair of Technology Management program in College of Education and Human Development, Texas A & M University. Dr. Mai’s main research interests focus primarily on the analytical, empirical and behavioral investigations of Information Technology Management / Human-Computer Interaction in general, and of information security and data privacy in particular, and has published widely in these fields. He is a Senior Research Fellow of Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center. Dr. Mai has recognized the emerging significant trends in IT industry of increasing emphasis on human elements in information security and privacy, and firmly believes, and whole-heartedly anticipates, the necessary shift to a more human-centric paradigm in studying information security and privacy, both in academic researches, as well as in education curriculum design. He envisions a new interdisciplinary paradigm that puts human decision making as the focal point of information security studies and has been actively participating in projects that help to usher in this next stage.

In his free time (although with an 8-year old, free time has become increasingly rare), Dr. Mai likes to watch movies, play online games of Mahjong, and enjoys playing tennis, swimming, ice-skating, and kayaking (although he’s good at none of them). He would like to learn to golf and travel around the world if he has more time and resources. He lives with his wife and son in College Station, Texas.