[CS] 2016-11-03 Lorrie Faith Cranor
From Mike Donohoe
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From Mike Donohoe
“Adventures in Usable Privacy and Security: From Empirical Studies to Public Policy”
Why are usability studies important for security and privacy? How can usable security researchers put study participants in realistic risky situations without actually putting them at risk? Why might it be counterproductive to mandate frequent password changes? How are identity thieves able to hijack mobile phone accounts? Lorrie Cranor will discuss the answers to these and other questions she has been exploring as both a usable security researcher and the Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission.
Speaker: Lorrie Faith Cranor joined the US Federal Trade
Commission as Chief Technologist in January 2016. She is on leave from Carnegie
Mellon University where she is a Professor of Computer Science and of
Engineering and Public Policy, Director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and
Security Laboratory (CUPS), and Co-director of the MSIT-Privacy Engineering
masters program. She also co-founded Wombat Security Technologies, an
information security awareness training company. Cranor has authored over 150
research papers on online privacy and usable security, and has played a central
role in establishing the usable privacy and security research community,
including her founding of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. She was
previously a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research. Cranor holds a doctorate in
Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a Fellow
of the ACM and IEEE.
Read about Cranor's work at the Commission in
the Tech@FTC blog, and follow her on Twitter: @TechFTC.