The Password Life Cycle

The Password Life Cycle

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Thursday, November 28, 2019

1:30 AM - 2:30 AM | Add to calendar

238 Azrieli Pavilion

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Tamara Torok, 6137979742, clue_coordinator@csit.carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

$0

About this Event

Host Organization: CLUE

Presenter
Elizabeth Stobert, Assistant Professor, Carleton University.
Abstract
Users are a key part of the security landscape and a central part of the motivation for computer security. Rather than dismissing them as the weakest link in the system, we can better understand their motivations and coping strategies to design for their cognitive strengths and contextual needs. In this talk I will discuss the role of the end user in authentication and how we can apply methodology and results from psychology to better understand and design for them. I will present results from a qualitative study of how users cope with password demands, and discuss what these results can suggest about the design of authentication systems.
Biography
Elizabeth Stobert is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton. Her research interests are in usable security and authentication, investigating how passwords and other authentication mechanisms can be made simultaneously easy-to-use and secure. She was previously a research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada, and prior to that, she completed a post-doc at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. She completed her PhD at Carleton University in 2015, and also has a masters degree in psychology.