Malak Baslyman recently won the IEEE First Place Poster Award at the University of Ottawa annual poster competition. She presented her Smells Phishy? game designed and developed for her final project in the Security & Usability graduate course. She was featured in the Ottawa Business Journal. … [Read more...] about Malak wins IEEE Award
Matthew defends his thesis
Matthew Hull successfully defended his MA HCI thesis this morning. His research focused on factors affecting secure end-user behaviour. Congratulations Matthew! The abstract of his thesis is: Understanding users’ individual differences may provide clues to help identify computer users who are prone to act insecurely. We examine factors that impact users’ reported security behaviour with respect to some common computer security issues. We conducted two online surveys with a total of 650 … [Read more...] about Matthew defends his thesis
SERENE April 2015 workshop
The SERENE-RISC April workshop was held at the Museum of Nature this week. It brought together over a hundred industry, academic, and government participants interested in building a healthy, secure, Canadian digital ecosystem. … [Read more...] about SERENE April 2015 workshop
Stephanie presents poster at CRA-W
Stephanie Hurtado recently presented a work-in-progress poster about her thesis research on driver distraction at the CRA-Women Grad Cohort. The workshop was held in San Francisco, April 10-11. … [Read more...] about Stephanie presents poster at CRA-W
new DESI journal article on Password Expiration
We are happy to announce that our journal paper, Quantifying the Security Advantage of Password Expiration Policies, will appear in an upcoming issue of Springer's Designs, Codes and Cryptography. A pre-print authors' copy is available on our publications page. The abstract of the paper is as follows: Many security policies force users to change passwords within fixed intervals, with the apparent justification that this improves overall security. However, the implied security benefit has … [Read more...] about new DESI journal article on Password Expiration
SERENE-RISC’s 2015 Spring Workshop
The SERENE-RISC 2015 Spring Workshop will take place in Ottawa on April 22 and 23. The workshop theme is “Cybersecurity futures: Toward a healthy digital ecosystem”. It aims to move beyond the usual catastrophic discourse on the impending breakdown of critical infrastructures provoked by malicious actors and state-sponsored attacks. Instead, we would like to frame the discussion around a more optimistic outlook trying to imagine what cybersecurity might look like ten years down the road if … [Read more...] about SERENE-RISC’s 2015 Spring Workshop
CHORUS student secures internship with CaseWare International
Masters of Computer Science student Kaplana Hundlani will be completing an 8-month internship with CaseWare International in Ottawa, starting this May. This internship will give Kalpana real-world experience in software development using Agile processes. … [Read more...] about CHORUS student secures internship with CaseWare International
Gerardo presents at USEC
Gerardo Reynaga presented his paper on evaluating the usability of captchas on mobile devices at USEC 2015 in San Diego, California. … [Read more...] about Gerardo presents at USEC
SERENE-RISC highlighted by Research Works
Carleton's Research Works recently featured SERENE-RISC in an online article highlighting the network and its cybersecurity initiatives. "SERENE-RISC’s purpose is knowledge mobilization – getting cybersecurity research out of the academic sphere and into the hands of industry and government where it can have a practical impact" … [Read more...] about SERENE-RISC highlighted by Research Works
USEC 2015 paper
Gerardo's latest work on mobile captchas has been accepted as a full paper at USEC 2015. Gerardo will present his paper next month in San Diego, California. … [Read more...] about USEC 2015 paper