Usable Security: Are we nearly there yet?
Event details
| Date | 03.06.2014 |
| Hour | 11:45 |
| Speaker | Angela SASSE, University College London (UCL) |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The number of systems and services that people interact with has increased rapidly over the past 20 years. Most of those systems and services have security controls, but until recently, the usability of those mechanims was not considered. Research over the past 15 years has provide ample evidence that systems that are not usable are not secure, either, because users make mistakes or devise workarounds that create vulnerabilities. In this talk, I will present an overview of the most pressing problems, and what research on usable security (often called HCISec in the US) has produced in response to this challenge. I will argue that much of the research to date has missed the point by focusing on improving user interfaces to security mechanisms, or trying or educate or 'nudge' users towards secure behaviour. I will demonstrate that usable and effective security controls need to have minimal user workload and low friction with productive activity.
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- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Contact
- Sylvie Thomet