Exploring the Risks to Identity Security and Privacy in Cyberspace
Jason Nurse ( University of Oxford )
- 14:00 29th May 2015 ( week 5, Trinity Term 2015 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
Cyberspace: a world of great promise, but also, of great peril. Pirates, predators and hackers galore; are you and your online identity at risk in this wild frontier? Maybe... Maybe not... In this talk, I will present some of the research that my colleagues and I in Oxford have conducted on this problem, with the aim of exploring the risks to identity security and privacy in cyberspace. To scope this presentation, I focus especially on the risks in the usage of social media, the exposure of potentially sensitive information in email headers, and how our digital device footprints can be used to make unexpected inferences about our lives and friends.
Speaker bio
Jason Nurse is a post-doc researcher in the field of Cyber Security at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Currently, Jason works within the area of identity security in cyberspace and understanding the risks individuals face, but also techniques that can enable people to better approach security and protect themselves online. In the past, his research has focused on topics such as designing cognitively-enhanced interfaces, approaches for usable security, and techniques to communicate cybersecurity risks to facilitate better decision-making regarding these risks.Share this:
