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Kevin Streff

Kevin Streff

Kevin Streff

Remote Professor

Department

The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Electronic Business - Capella University, 2004
M.B.A., Business Administration - Temple University, 1995
B.B.A., Business Administration - Dakota State University, 1988
B.S., Information Systems - Dakota State University, 1988

Biography

Dr. Streff is Professor and Research Director of PriLab, an interdisciplinary research lab focused on improving data privacy protection. He also serves as Academic Coordinator for the PhD in Cyber Defense program. He has extensive knowledge of the financial services industry, including banking, insurance, and credit operations. Dr. Streff is the founder of three security firms, including Secure Banking Solutions, LLC, Helix Security, LLC, and SBS Cybersecurity, LLC. He also purchased a cyber auditing firm Blu3 Technologies in Little Rock, AR. Dr. Streff is the founder and past president of InfraGard - South Dakota, a partnership program between private industry and the U.S. government.

Dr. Streff has won funding awards through the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, Small Business Innovation Research, etc. Dr. Streff has testified several times to congressional committees in the field and in Washington DC, helping lawmakers understand the security issues which need attention in the banking sector. He speaks nationally on security issues and solutions relevant to small and medium-sized banks. Dr. Streff has worked with Inc. Magazine, Forbes, CNN, National Public Radio, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal to communicate his ideas.

Research Interests

Security Risk Management
Data Privacy Risk Management
Information Security Programs
Data Privacy Programs
Vendor Management
Cyber Auditing and Testing
Personnel Security and Privacy

Contact

Office Location: Online
Phone: (605) 256-5838
Email
Website

  • PI Awarded $50,000 grant from Department of Homeland Security (January, 2010) to create a consortium of academic, industry and government partners to focus on the information risk issues in the financial sector.
  • Awarded $2.0 million from state of South Dakota to establish the National Center for the Protection of the Financial Infrastructure (Streff–PI).
  • Awarded $300,000 from NSF for Upper Midwest Information Assurance Faculty Development Project (Streff–PI). Awarded $100,000 South Dakota Future Fund grant in 2007 to establish a National Center for the Protection of the Financial Infrastructure.
  • Awarded $120,557 2007 Major Research Instrumentation Program NSF Grant (MRI) working with PI Dr. Fu, and fellow Co-PIs Dr. Halverson and Dr. Graham to establish a network infrastructure for information assurance research.
  • Awarded $28,854 grant through the 2007 Governor’s 2010 Individual Research SEED Grant Program.
  • Awarded $32,000 grant in 2007 from Department of Defense (National Security Agency) to continue to develop digital forensics capabilities on campus. Worked with Dr. William Figg (Streff-PI).
  • Awarded $80,000 grant from Department of Defense to enhance digital forensics capabilities. Worked with Dr. William Figg (Streff-PI).
  • Awarded $125,000 grant from The Great Plains Education Foundation for biometrics research (Streff-PI).
  • Awarded $248,000 grant through the Department of Education to further augment the Center for Information Assurance (Streff-PI).
  • Awarded a $1,000 faculty research award in the Dakota State University Faculty Research Initiative Project.
  • Awarded a $7,000 summer grant in 2004 to create two new information assurance courses: INFA711 Security Policy and Procedures and INFA713 Managing Information Security Risks.
  • Awarded a $1,000 summer grant in 2003 to expand the curriculum in two information assurance courses to meet the requirements of the NSTISSI 4011 and 4013 national standards.
  • Awarded a $3,500 grant in 2003 to assess the teaching effectiveness of current assessment instruments in a software development class.

  • In Progress - Streff, K., Steinhagen, D., McKee, L. Textbook (draft 100% complete) entitled, “Data Privacy Management”. Working with Publisher for publication in the Summer of 2023.
  • Neher, S. & Streff, K. Why Johnny Can't Use a Password Manager: A Person-in-Environment Perspective. ISECON 2022.
  • In Progress – Mansour, A, Steinhagen, D., and Streff, K. “Human-Rights Implications and Consequences of the Marriott Data Breach.
  • Steinhagen, D., Academic Lucas, C., Francis, M., Lawrence, M., & Streff, K., “An Inventory of Privacy Curricula Offerings in Higher Education”. Information Systems Education Journal, 2021, Volume 19, Number 3, ISSN 1545-679X
  • Streff, K., Faculty Research Supervisor, Michael Shema Shingiro and Sara Stehlik, drafted paper entitled, “State Data Privacy Laws”. Work is being handed over to other PriLab researchers to complete in 2021 as the laws are changing quickly
  • Francis, D. Steinhagen, and K. Streff. Book Chapter in Progress, “Developing a Privacy Research Lab” for book entitled Privacy Literacy Practices in Academic Libraries in the section entitled What is Privacy Literacy
  • Streff, K. Faculty Research Supervisor, McKee, L. Research Poster – “A Modern Approach to Privacy Assessments”. 2021 WiCyS Conference.  Won second place in the best poster competition
  • Steinhagen and K. Streff. Research Poster – “An Introductory Course on Data Privacy”. 2019 Cybersecurity, Law, Education and Applied Research Conference
  • Streff, K. Wrote a story entitled “Work from Home Cybersecurity” for Forbes, 2020
  • Streff, K. Magazine Article – “Dark Pools”, Money Observer. January 2020.
  • Streff, K. Magazine Article and Online Broadcast – “Why is this online banking security feature common in other countries, but not Canada? This was the magazines number 1 read story of the month, so we did an online broadcast.”, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Alshboul, Y, & Streff, K. Analyzing an Information Security Model for Small-Medium Sized Businesses, AMCIS 2015 21st Americas Conference on Information Systems. Manuscript ID is AMCIS-0305-2015.
  • Streff, K. F., Shrestha, S., Delzer, C. (2014). Risk Assessment & Management in Merchant Capture Systems: A Threat Analysis Perspective. Journal of Information Systems Applied Research, 7(4) pp 50-65. http://jisar.org/2014-7/ ISSN: 1946-1836.
  • Streff, K., Shrestha, S., and Delzer, C. Risk Assessment & Management in Merchant Capture Systems: A Threat Analysis Perspective, 2013 Proceedings of the Conference for Information Systems Applied Research, ISSN: 2167- 1508, San Antonio, Texas, USA v6 n2814 ©2013 EDSIG (Education Special Interest Group of the AITP).
  • Streff, K and Haar, J. An Examination of Information Security in Mobile Banking Architectures. Journal of Information Systems Applied Research, 2(6). ISSN: 1946-1836, June 2009.
  • Streff, K. and Pullman, N. Security Education, Training and Awareness. In: Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Liabilities in Information Security (1st) Idea Group Inc. Hershey, PA. (2008), ISBN: 978-1-60566-132-2. Book Chapter.
  • Streff, K. “Information Security in Banking” In: Managing Information Assurance in Financial Services Idea Group Inc. Hershey, PA. (2007), ISBN: 978-1-59904-171-1. Book Chapter.
  • Streff, K. Information Security in Banking. In: Managing Information Assurance in Financial Services (1st) Idea Group Inc. Hershey, PA. (2007), ISBN: 978-1-59904-171-1. Book Chapter.
  • Pullman, N. and Streff, K. Identity Management and Access. In: Managing Information Assurance in Financial Services (1st) Idea Group Inc. Hershey, PA. (2007), ISBN: 978-1-59904-171-1. Book Chapter.
  • Streff, K. and Z. Zhou. “Developing and Enhancing a Computer and Network Security Curriculum” in the 2006 Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Volume 21, Number 3, February 2006.
  • Dennis, O. El-Gayar, and K. Streff. A Model Program in Information Assurance and Computer Security. IACIS International Association for Computer Information Systems 2004, Issues in Information Systems (Volume IV No 2 Pages 97-102, 2004).

  • Francis, Q. Covert, D. Steinhagen, and K. Streff. “An Inventory of International Privacy Principles: A 14 Country Analysis”. 2020 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2019 HICSS 53).
  • Covert, D. Steinhagen, M. Francis, and K. Streff. “Towards a Triad of Data Privacy”. 2020 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2019 HICSS 53).
  • Covert and K. Streff. Research Poster – “Data Privacy Simulator”. 2019 Cybersecurity, Law, Education and Applied Research Conference.
  • Steinhagen and K. Streff. Research Poster – “An Introductory Course on Data Privacy”. 2019 Cybersecurity, Law, Education and Applied Research Conference.
  • Gallo, D. Wiese and K. Streff, Research Poster – Case Study: City of Atlanta Ransomware. 2019 Cybersecurity, Law, Education and Applied Research Conference.
  • Streff, K. Keynote speaker at South Carolina Security Forum, November, 2016.
  • Streff, K., Keynote speaker at Iowa Bankers Technology Conference, September, 2016.
  • Streff, K. Keynote speaker at Iowa Bankers Cybersecurity Showcase, July, 2016.
  • Streff, K. Keynote speaker at Earthbend Security Showcase, September, 2015.
  • Streff, K. Confronting the Challenge of Cybersecurity. United States Congressional Testimony, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, September, 2015.
  • Streff, K. Keynote speaker for 2013 Texas Bankers Association Technology Conference, April, 2013.
  • Streff, K. Speaker for educational events through the following associations: Pennsylvania Association for Community Banks, Community Bankers of Wisconsin, South Dakota Bankers Association, North Dakota Bankers Association, Community Banks of Iowa, Nebraska Bankers Association, Maryland Bankers Association, Virginia Association of Community Banks, and Minnesota Bankers Association in 2009 - 2015.
  • Streff, K. Keynote speaker for 2010 Kansas Technology Conference, Hot Technologies in Community Banking, February 2010.
  • Streff, K. Keynote lecture for international critical infrastructure protection conference (IFIP09) held at Dartmouth College on March 24, 2009. Topic: Protecting the Financial Infrastructure through Effective Third Party Risk Management.