Chapter III: How One Niche Player in the Internet Security Field Fulfills an Important Role

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Troy J. Strader, PhD
IS Department
Drake University, USA

* co-authors: Daniel M. Norris, Philip A. Houle, Charles B. Shrader (please see pg. 87 for biographies)

Biography

Troy J. Strader is Associate Professor of Information Systems at Drake University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997. Dr. Strader has co-edited two books, the Handbook on Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce: Technology, Theory and Applications and his research appears in Communications of the ACM, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Commerce Research, Electronic Markets, Internet Research, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, Annals of Case on Information Technology and other academic and practitioner journals. He has work experience as a computer programmer and systems analyst.

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