His research, primarily involving IT management, knowledge engineering, computer security, and electronic commerce, has appeared in such journals as Decision Sciences, MIS Quarterly, Expert Systems, ACM Applied Computing Review, Journal of Computer Information Systems, and The Journal of Intelligent Technologies. Dr. Warkentin has served as an associate editor and guest editor of several journals, and as a consultant to numerous companies and organizations. He has also been a featured speaker at over 100 industry association meetings and is currently a national lecturer for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He received his Ph.D. in MIS from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.