Enabling Invisible Security and Privacy for Resilient Human-Centric Cybersecurity Systems
Dr. Eric Osterweil
KEY INTERESTS
Cybersecurity of Internet critical infrastructures; Inter-organizational object-security; Cryptography; Internet measurements
APPOINTMENTS/AFFILIATIONS
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
Director, Measurable Security Lab, George Mason University
ACADEMIC DEGREES
BS, Physics, Johns Hopkins University
PhD, Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles
ENABLING INVISIBLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY FOR RESILIENT HUMAN-CENTRIC CYBERSECURITY SYSTEMS
This project works toward establishing a foundation for future efforts to develop a human-usable adaptive encryption platform and cybersecurity threat intelligence information sharing. Implementing widespread encryption of data would provide low-technical knowledge users the ability to significantly increase protection of their data. To this end, this work primarily focuses on identifying and evaluating users' security and privacy needs and preferences when cryptography is deployed at unprecedented scales. By conducting a user assessment, leveraging novel object security and privacy tools for email, this project gains insight into what security is reasonable for users' mental models (form novice to expert), the most desirable security configurations for users, as well as necessary and sufficient levels of configurability to maximize user utility. These insights will be used to develop the foundation of advanced Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence information sharing.