Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
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Submitted by Acquisti Alessandro on Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:29am
Human beings have evolved to detect and react to threats in their physical environment, and have developed perceptual systems selected to assess these physical stimuli for current, material risks. In cyberspace, the same stimuli are often absent, subdued, or deliberately manipulated by malicious third parties. Hence, security and privacy concerns that would normally be activated in the offline world may remain muted, and defense behaviors may be hampered.
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Submitted by asiamina on Mon, 10/16/2017 - 10:46am
The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life. The great benefits of the Internet also come with potential risks, security issues, and privacy concerns. Internet security products are usually employed to inform users about security incidents.
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Submitted by Rebecca Slayton on Thu, 10/12/2017 - 2:32pm
By using the electric power sector as an example of a critical infrastructure, this career project will examine the influence of computer and network security expertise on critical infrastructure organizations, the ways cybersecurity is becoming a new field of expertise and the role of global enactments of cybersecurity on reshaping conceptions of international security.
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Submitted by Raghav Rao on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 1:30pm
Insiders pose substantial threats to an organization, regardless of whether they act intentionally or accidentally. Because they usually possess elevated privileges and have skills, knowledge, resources, access and motives regarding internal systems and data, insiders can easily circumvent security countermeasures, steal valuable data, and cause damage. Perimeter and host-based countermeasures like firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus software are ineffective in preventing and detecting insider threats.
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Submitted by Paul Pavlou on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 12:44pm
A key characteristic of cyberspace is the collection of large amounts of data, and people's privacy becomes vulnerable given the hyper-connectivity of cyberspace and the ease of accessing data. This project aims to enhance the safety and trustworthiness of cyberspace by designing choice architecture interventions informed by the neural processes underlying privacy to help people make better decisions about their privacy in cyberspace.
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Submitted by Paul Dourish on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 12:02pm
News reports are rife with accounts of data breaches, network security problems, and the dangers of keeping personal information online. Modern life, though, makes it impossible to avoid doing just that. It is almost no longer a choice whether we make purchases, communicate with our bank, apply for government services, or file our taxes online - it is the standard expectation. This research explores how people resolve the tension between these two realities and the practices that people have adopted to balance competing demands upon them.
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Submitted by Norman Sadeh on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 10:14am
Whether it is on their smartphones, in their browsers or on social networks, people are confronted with an increasingly unmanageable number of privacy settings. What is needed is a new, more scalable paradigm that empowers them to regain control over the collection and use of their data. This is particularly the case for mobile apps people download on their smartphones. These apps have been shown to collect and share a wide variety of sensitive data, with users unable to keep up.
