Areas of responsibility
Meseret Assefa Adamu is a Ph.D. research fellow in Cybersecurity at the Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Norway. He obtained his BSc degree in Information Science from Jimma University, Ethiopia, and his MSc degree in Information Science from Addis Ababa University, School of Information Science, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to his current position, he taught most IT and IS courses at the university and college levels, participated in different thematic research projects, and conducted problem-solving research projects in the area of Information Science and Systems.
Research
Cybersecurity Culture, Cyber hygiene Practices, Cyber Risk Management, Cyber Resilience, Cybersecurity Leadership, cybersecurity amid Rapid Digital Transformation
Selected publications
Adamu, M.A, "Conceptualizing and Learning to Foster Cybersecurity Culture: A Literature Review" (2023). MCIS 2023 Proceedings. 16. https://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2023/16
Adamu, M.A., Niemimaa, M.I., Spagnoletti, P. (2025). Towards a Three-Tiered Framework for Fostering Organizational Cybersecurity Culture. EMCIS 2024. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 536. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81325-2_22
Adamu, Meseret Assefa; Niemimaa, Marko; and Spagnoletti, Paolo, "Leadership Role in Fostering Cybersecurity Culture Amid Rapid Digital Transformation" (2025). AMCIS 2025 Proceedings. 2. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2025/is_leader/is_leader/2