In the course of past three years at LERSSE, we have done several studies that helped us to further the understanding of users’ mental models, when it comes to security. Continue reading
Lessons learned from studying users’ mental models of security
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Single Sign On on the Web: What’s broken and What can be fixed?
With Ph.D. student San-Tsai Sun, we have been investigating single-sign-on for Web. Continue reading
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Understanding Wants and Needs of Personal Firewall Users
I’ve presented results of a user study by my graduate student Fahimeh Raja at SafeConfig. She conducted semi-structured interviews with a diverse set of participants to gain an understanding of their knowledge, requirements, perceptions, and misconceptions of personal firewalls. There are several interesting findings. Continue reading
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SOUPS Features LERSSE Research
LERSSE graduate students presented their research at the Symposium on Usable Security Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Here is a summary of the presented research: Continue reading
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