UT Arlington researcher earns NSF grant to assess and protect against insider risk at financial institutions

Threat behaviorA University of Texas Arlington associate professor has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to identify insider risk and develop proper protection strategies for information systems within a financial institution. Jingguo Wang, an associate professor in the Information Systems and Operations Management Department , received a three-year, $157,481 grant that’s part of a larger $499,766 NSF grant with the University of Buffalo. “Insiders impose great threats to information security of financial institutions,” Wang said. “We use