ACE Seminar: System Security meets Usable Security – Administrators and Developers are humans too

Speaker: Prof. Matthew Smith, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
UCL Contact: christophe.petit@ucl.ac.uk (Visitors from outside UCL please email in advance).
Date/Time: 03 Jun 15, 16:00 - 17:00
Venue: 1.02

Abstract

Many aspects of information security combine technical and human factors. If a highly secure system is unusable, users will try to circumvent the system or migrate entirely to less secure but more usable systems. Problems with usability are a major contributor to many recent high-profile security failures. The research domain of usable security & privacy addresses these issues. However, until now the main focus of researchers in this field have been end users. After giving a brief introduction into the field, the presenter will argue that usability issues for administrators and developers also need to be taken into account. The talk will use SSL as an example to illustrate usable security and privacy issues for all actors involved in the SSL ecosystem.

Prof. Matthew Smith