CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

Sonia Chiasson

new DESI journal article on Password Expiration

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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

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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

SERENE-RISC highlighted by Research Works

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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