The Weakest Link?
During this presentation, Dr. Kelly Caine will argue a provocative point: that executives, managers, system administrators, designers, and coders, rather than users, are the weak links in cybersecurity. She will share her research about and methods for understanding users. She will provide you with insight about user psychology and behavior that you can apply throughout your organization. Take this opportunity to truly understand why users behave as they do, what drives them to insecure behaviors such as workarounds, and how you can design information systems to encourage secure behavior. Discover how to harness this insight to address one of the toughest issues in cybersecurity: understanding your users.
Kelly Caine
Dr. Kelly Caine is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Computer Science at the University of Iceland. She is also a Professor in the Human-Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing at Clemson University. She is the founder and co-director of the Humans and Technology Lab (www.hatlab.org) where she leads research in human factors, cybersecurity, human-centered computing, privacy, usable security, and human-computer interaction. She is co-author of Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research (2015) and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers. Prior to joining Clemson, she was Principal Research Scientist in the School of Computing at Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and a UX researcher at Google.
