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    - Present 5 years

    Membership Chair for ISC² North East Chapter

Publications

  • Personality and Social Framing in Privacy Decision-Making: A Study on Cookie Acceptance

    Frontiers in Psychology

    Despite their best intentions, people struggle with the realities of privacy protection and
    will often sacrifice privacy for convenience in their online activities. Individuals show
    systematic, personality dependent differences in their privacy decision making, which
    makes it interesting for those who seek to design ‘nudges’ designed to manipulate
    privacy behaviors. We explore such effects in a cookie decision task. Two hundred and
    ninety participants were given an incidental…

    Despite their best intentions, people struggle with the realities of privacy protection and
    will often sacrifice privacy for convenience in their online activities. Individuals show
    systematic, personality dependent differences in their privacy decision making, which
    makes it interesting for those who seek to design ‘nudges’ designed to manipulate
    privacy behaviors. We explore such effects in a cookie decision task. Two hundred and
    ninety participants were given an incidental website review task that masked the true aim
    of the study. At the task outset, they were asked whether they wanted to accept a cookie
    in a message that either contained a social framing ‘nudge’ (they were told that either a
    majority or a minority of users like themselves had accepted the cookie) or contained no
    information about social norms (control). At the end of the task, participants were asked
    to complete a range of personality assessments (impulsivity, risk-taking, willingness
    to self-disclose and sociability). We found social framing to be an effective behavioral
    nudge, reducing cookie acceptance in the minority social norm condition. Further, we
    found personality effects in that those scoring highly on risk-taking and impulsivity were
    significantly more likely to accept the cookie. Finally, we found that the application of a
    social nudge could attenuate the personality effects of impulsivity and risk-taking. We
    explore the implications for those working in the privacy-by-design space.

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  • Nudging towards security: Developing an application for wireless network selection for android phones.

    ACM digital library (in press).

    Peer-reviewed conference paper, accepted to British HCI, University of Lincoln, UK, 13-17 July 2015.

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  • Addressing consumerization of IT risks with nudging

    International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management

    In this work we address the main issues of Information Technology (IT) consumerization that are related to security risks, and vulnerabilities of devices used within Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy in particular. We propose a ‘soft’ mitigation strategy for user actions based on nudging, widely applied to health and social behavior influence. In particular, we propose a complementary,
    less strict, more flexible Information Security policies, based on risk assessment of device…

    In this work we address the main issues of Information Technology (IT) consumerization that are related to security risks, and vulnerabilities of devices used within Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy in particular. We propose a ‘soft’ mitigation strategy for user actions based on nudging, widely applied to health and social behavior influence. In particular, we propose a complementary,
    less strict, more flexible Information Security policies, based on risk assessment of device vulnerabilities and threats to corporate data and devices, combined with a strategy of influencing security behavior by nudging. We argue that nudging, by taking into account the context of the decision-making environment, and the fact that the employee may be in better position to make a more appropriate decision, may be more suitable than strict policies in situations of uncertainty of security-related decisions. Several examples of nudging are considered for different tested and potential scenarios in security context.

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  • Consumerisation of IT: Mitigating risky user actions and improving productivity with nudging

    Elsevier - CENTERIS 2014 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems

    In this work we address the main issues of IT consumerisation that are related to security risks, and propose a ‘soft’ mitigation strategy for user actions based on nudging, widely applied to health and social behaviour influence. In particular, we propose acomplementary, less strict, more flexible Information Security policies, based on risk assessment of device vulnerabilities and threats to corporate data and devices, combined with a strategy of influencing security behaviour by…

    In this work we address the main issues of IT consumerisation that are related to security risks, and propose a ‘soft’ mitigation strategy for user actions based on nudging, widely applied to health and social behaviour influence. In particular, we propose acomplementary, less strict, more flexible Information Security policies, based on risk assessment of device vulnerabilities and threats to corporate data and devices, combined with a strategy of influencing security behaviour by nudging. We argue that nudging,by taking into account the context of the decision-making environment, and the fact that the employee may be in better position to make a more appropriate decision, may be more suitable than strict policies in situations of uncertainty of security-related decisions.

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Honors & Awards

  • Cyber Innovation Challenge (Double Winner) Raytheon - Metropolitan Police

    Raytheon & Metropolitan Police

    5 day event in London hosted by Raytheon and the Metropolitan Police.

    • Design and implement two software solutions for two separate problems.
    - First: Design and implement a system to detect malicious traffic between network nodes.
     Use of an innovative Peer to Peer solution
    - Second: Design and implement a system to aid in police crime rapid response and assessment.
     Crowd source solution
     Allow users to…

    5 day event in London hosted by Raytheon and the Metropolitan Police.

    • Design and implement two software solutions for two separate problems.
    - First: Design and implement a system to detect malicious traffic between network nodes.
     Use of an innovative Peer to Peer solution
    - Second: Design and implement a system to aid in police crime rapid response and assessment.
     Crowd source solution
     Allow users to vote
     Distribute crimes between officers.
     Web based front end to visually display crime location.
     Building of a mobile application to allow users (member of the public) to submit video, pictures anonymously (if desired)

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  • British Computing Society

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