Tamara Schwartz, D.B.A.

Tamara Schwartz
Division/Department
Graham School of Business
Associate Professor, Cybersecurity & Business Administration
Contact Information
Willman Business Center , Room 108

Meet Tamara Schwartz

Tamara Schwartz, USAF (ret.), is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity and Strategy and an affiliate researcher with Cybersecurity at MIT-Sloan Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, an international cybersecurity think tank. She is also a member of the Cognitive Security Institute think tank. 

While on active duty, Dr. Schwartz’s thought leadership informed the standup of Cyber Command and the design of various command centers supporting Joint Space, Cyber, and Global Strategic Operations, and her work at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan earned her the 2011 Information Operations Officer of the Year. More recently, Dr. Schwartz was a member of the 2020 “Dr. Evil task force,” with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, identifying future threats to inform DoD investments in emerging technology. 

She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, her M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton, and her Doctorate of Business Administration from the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Her research expertise includes Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity as a strategic competitive advantage, and information warfare.

  • Cybersecurity Strategy, D.B.A.
    Temple University
  • Information Warfare
  • Gamified Business Models
  • Ethical Artificial Intelligence 
  • Cybersecurity for Strategic Advantage
  • Jordahl, J., Schwartz, T., Roney, J., Mag Fhloinn, B., Abbireddy, B., and Chaudhari, A. (2024). Curing Generative AI Hallucinations with Data Provenance. Cambridge, MA: Northeast Decisions Sciences Institute.
  • Schwartz, T. (2023). Information Warfare. Kendall Hunt.
  • Schwartz, T., Parada, J.C., Cohn, F., Wrenn, G., Pearlson, K.E. (2023). The Next Big Strategic Play: Cybersecurity as a Competitive Advantage. Journal for Information Systems Security, 19(2), 109-126.
  • Jordahl, J., Schwartz, T., and Don, C. (2023). Unmasking blackbox AI for eyes to see: C4I must reveal the core data structures in 2023. 91st Military Operations Research Symposium, West Point, NY.
  • Schwartz, T. (2023). Teaching in the age of infowars: An exercise in disinformation literacy. Proceedings of the 22nd Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Cognitive Security Institute
  • Cybersecurity at MIT-Solan