Marc Dupuis, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

Associate Professor

Graduate Program Coordinator

Marc Dupuis, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

Associate Professor

Graduate Program Coordinator

Marc J. Dupuis, Ph.D., is an associate professor and the graduate program coordinator within the Department of Computing & Software Systems at the University of Washington Bothell. Dupuis earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Information Science, and Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the University of Washington. Prior to this, he earned an M.A. in Political Science at Western Washington University. His research area is cybersecurity with an emphasis on the human factors of cybersecurity. The primary focus of his research involves the examination of psychological traits and their relationship to the cybersecurity and privacy behavior of individuals. His goal is to both understand behavior as it relates to cybersecurity and privacy and discover what may be done to improve that behavior. He and his collaborators have explored the use of fear appeals, shame, regret, forgiveness, and grace in cybersecurity to engender behavioral change. Additionally, the role of cyber leadership and how it can be improved is an additional area of focus.

Education

  • University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
    • Ph.D. – Information Science
    • M.S. – Information Science
    • M.P.A. – Public Administration
  • Western Washington University – Bellingham, Washington
    • M.A. – Political Science
    • B.A. – Political Science
  • Central Washington University – Ellensburg, Washington
    • B.S. – Information Technology & Administrative Management, Cybersecurity
    • B.A. – Psychology

Courses

  • CSS 110 Introduction to Cybersecurity
  • CSS 310 Information Assurance & Cybersecurity
  • CSS 517 Information Assurance & Cybersecurity
  • CSS 518 Human Factors of Cybersecurity

Teaching Interests

Cybersecurity, information assurance, privacy

Research and Scholarship Interests

Human factors of cybersecurity and privacy

Creative Interests

Photography, gardening, cooking & baking

Journal Articles

  • Dupuis, M., Searle, R. and Renaud, K.V. (2025), “Finding grace in responses to adverse cybersecurity incidents”, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 45-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIC-04-2024-0128
  • Renaud, K., & Dupuis, M. (2023). Cybersecurity Insights Gleaned from World Religions. Computers & Security, 132, 103326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103326
  • Dupuis, M. and Renaud, K. (2020). Scoping the Ethical Principles of Cybersecurity Fear Appeals. Ethics and Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09560-0
  • Dupuis, M., Khadeer, S.**, & Huang, J.** (2017). “I Got the Job!”: An exploratory study examining the psychological factors related to status updates on facebook. Computers in Human Behavior, 73, 132-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.03.020
  • Dupuis, M. (2017). Cyber Security for Everyone: An Introductory Course for Non-Technical Majors. Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research, and Practice, 2017 (1, Article 3).

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Renaud, K., Dupuis, M., and Searle, R. (2022). Cybersecurity Regrets: I’ve had a few…. In Proceedings of 2022 New Security Paradigms Workshop, New Hampshire, USA, October 2022, (NSPW ’22), (17 pages). https://doi.org/10.1145/3584318.3584319
  • Dupuis, M., Renaud, K., and Jennings, A.** (2022). Fear might motivate secure password choices in the short term, but at what cost? In The 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Maui, Hawaii: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2022.585
  • Renaud, K., Searle, R., and Dupuis, M. (2021). Shame in Cyber Security: Effective Behavior Modification Tool or Counterproductive Foil? In Proceedings of 2021 New Security Paradigms Workshop, New Hampshire, USA, October 2021, (NSPW ’21), (17 pages). https://doi.org/10.1145/3498891.3498896
  • Dupuis, M., Jennings, A.**, and Renaud, K. (2021). Scaring People is Not Enough: An Examination of Fear Appeals within the Context of Promoting Good Password Hygiene. In the Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE ’21), October 6–9, 2021, Snowbird, UT, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450329.3476862
  • Renaud, K. & Dupuis, M. (2019). Cyber Security Fear Appeals: Unexpectedly Complicated. In Proceedings of 2019 New Security Paradigms Workshop, San Carlos, Costa Rica, September 23–26, 2019 (NSPW ’19), (pp. 42-56). https://doi.org/10.1145/3368860.3368864