Professor M. Angela Sasse

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Head of Information Security Research

Office: 6.06, Malet Place Engineering

Tel: +44 020 7679 7212

Fax: +44 020 7387 1397

Email: a.sasse [at] cs.ucl.ac.uk

Research

Research interests: how we design and implement innovative technologies that are fit for purpose, value for money, and improve productivity and well-being of individuals and society.

Current research projects

- Trust Economics

- Privacy Value Networks

- TARGET

- SAFETRIP

The Information Security Group has been integrated with Angela's research on Human-Centred Systems. This new web presence is still evolving to incorporate all the facets of the newly formed research group.

Teaching

• People and Security (GA10)
• Also taught at Oxford University as part of the Software Engineering Programme

Short Biography

Read psychology in Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University, and a PhD in Computer Science (on Users' Models) from the University of Birmingham. Worked as a Human Factors Specialist for Philips Corporate Industrial Design in 1990. Started as Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UCL in November 1990.

Beyond UCL

• Member of the EPSRC College since 2003.
• Visiting Professor at the Defence Academy at Shrivenham
• Currently chair of the Human Vulnerabilites SIG of the Cybersecurity KTN, member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council

Conferences

• Past Chair of the British HCI Group (A Specialist Group of the British Computer Society) and Joint Technical Programme Chair of HCI'96.
• International Programme Committee Co-Chair of INTERACT'99 in Edinburgh.
• Papers Co-Chair (with Betsy Comstock) of CHI 2002 in Minneapolis.
• Co-Chair of Mentoring Program (with Michael Muller) for CHI 2003 in Ft. Lauderdale.
• Co-Chair of WEIS 2009

Research Fellows: Dr Sacha Brostoff, Dr Charlene Jennett, Dr Ashweeni Beeharee

Current PhD students: Sven Laqua, Adam Beautement, Adrian Rahaman, Miguel Malheiros, Martin Ruskov, Inka Karppinen, Anthony Morton, Kat Krol, Iacovos Kirlappos

List of all PhD students

Recent Publications

• Inglesant, P.G. and Sasse, M.A. (2011) Information Security as Organizational Power: A framework for re-thinking security policies. In Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust (STAST 2011), 8th September, 2011, Milan, Italy
• Jhawar, R., Inglesant, P.G., Sasse, M.A., and Curtois, N.T. (2011) Make Mine a Quadruple: Strengthening the Security of Graphical One-Time PIN authentication. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2011), 6th-8th September, 2011, Milan, Italy
• Malheiros, M., Jennett, C., Seager, W. & Sasse, M.A. (2011) Trusting to Learn: Trust and Privacy Issues in Serious Games. In J. M. McCune et al., eds. Trust and Trustworthy Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 116-130.
• Seager, W., Ruskov, M., Sasse, M.A., and Oliveira, M. (2011) Eliciting and modelling expertise for serious games in project management. Entertainment Computing In Press, Corrected Proof. doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2011.01.002.
• Laqua, S., Sasse, M.A., Gates, C., and Greenspan, S. (2011). Do you KnowDis? A User Study of a Knowledge Discovery Tool for Organizations. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2887-2896. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979371.
• Beeharee, A.K., Laqua, S., and Sasse, M.A. (2011). Navigating Haystacks at 70mph: Intelligent Search for Intelligent In-Car Services. In: MIAA workshop at IUI 2011, Palo Alto, California, US.
• Inglesant, P.G. & Sasse, M.A. (2010). The true cost of unusable password policies: password use in the wild. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. Atlanta, Georgia, USA: ACM, pp. 383-392.
• Inglesant P., Sasse M.A. (2010). Studying Password Use in the Wild: Practical Problems and Possible Solutions. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2010, July 14-16, 2010, Redmond, WA, USA.
• Beautement, A., Sasse, M.A (2010). Gathering realistic authentication performance data through field trials. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Redmond, Washington
• Brostoff S., Inglesant P., Sasse M.A. (2010). Evaluating the usability and security of a graphical one-time PIN system. 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction HCI2010, Dundee, Scotland, 6 Sep 2010 - 10 Sep 2010
• Beautement, A., Sasse, M.A. (2010). The Compliance Budget: The economics of user effort in information security. Computer Fraud & Security, Volume 2009, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 8-12
• Keval,H., Sasse,M. A. (2010). "Not the Usual Suspects" : A Study of Factors Reducing the Effectiveness of CCTV. Security Journal. ISSN: 0955-1662

List of all publications