Building a Bridge Between Humans and Security
Many online services require users to authenticate them- selves to prove their identity. Text-based passwords are the most widely-used authentication mechanism. Children aged 3-5 are also required to do this, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Young children can struggle with Continue Reading …
The CyberSquad team have arrived to deliver some password related lessons to children. We’ve had to take it down. Sorry There are videos for parents and teachers, as well as some classroom or home activities to go with the videos. Continue Reading …
For the last two decades the field of usable security has spoken about the tension between security and usability. A huge army of researchers have worked tirelessly to improve the usability of security systems. Yet we’ve missed a dimension or Continue Reading …
In 1999, Anne Adams and M. Angela Sasse wrote a paper titled “Users are not the Enemy“. That same year Whitten and Tygar wrote a paper titled “Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt” Soon after, the field of Usable Security launched, with Continue Reading …
What Happens when you show people evidence of a likely privacy violation? The Privacy Paradox is a phenomenon which describes the difference between people’s stated privacy concerns and the actions they actually take to preserve their privacy. Our Experiment We Continue Reading …
Wall Street Journal Piece This blog post was co-written by Suzanne Prior (Abertay University). Children are increasingly being exposed to and using technology from a very young age for both education and recreation. This has never been more true than Continue Reading …
Our paper, titled “Children’s Password-Related Books: Efficacious, Vexatious and Incongruous“, has been accepted for publication in the Early Childhood Education Journal. If you’re looking for a great children’s book, look at this one just published by Wendy Goucher 1. Paper Continue Reading …