Professor M. Angela Sasse

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Head of Information Security Research

Director of the Science of Cyber Security Research Institute

Director of the Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber 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.

Angela's full research portrait can be found here

Current research projects

- TARGET

- SAFETRIP

- Usable Security

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

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Recent Publications

• Arnell, S., Beautement, A., Inglesant, P., Monahan, B., Pym, D., and Sasse, M.A. (2012) Systematic Decision Making in Security Management Modelling Password Usage and Support. Presented at the International Workshop on Quantitative Aspects in Security Assurance (QASA 2012). Pisa, Italy.
• Bartsch, S. and Sasse M.A. (2012) Guiding decisions on authorization policies: a participatory approach to decision support. Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 1502-1507.
• Jennett, C., Brostoff, S., Malheiros, M., Sasse, M. A. (2012). Adding insult to injury: consumer experiences of being denied credit. International Journal of Consumer Studies 36(5), 549-555
• Kirlappos, I., Sasse, M. A. (2012). Security Education against Phishing: A Modest Proposal for a Major Rethink. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine 10(2), 24-32
• Kirlappos, I., Sasse, M. A., Harvey, N. (2012). Why Trust Seals Don't Work: A Study of User Perceptions and Behavior. In Katzenbeisser, S., Weippl, E., Camp, L., Volkamer, M., Reiter, M., Zhang, X. (Eds.). Trust and Trustworthy Computing 7344, 308-324. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer.
• Malheiros, M., Jennett, C., Patel, S., Brostoff, S., Sasse, M. A. (2012). Too close for comfort: A study of the effectiveness and acceptability of rich-media personalized advertising. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 579-588. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
• Zhang, M., Jennett, C., Malheiros, M., and Sasse, M. A. (2012). Data after death: User requirements and design challenges for SNSs and email providers. Presented at Memento Mori: Technology Design for the End of Life (CHI Workshop 2012), Austin, Texas, 05 May 2012 - 10 May 2012
• Sasse, M. A., Kirlappos, I. (2012). Familiarity Breeds Con-victims: Why We Need More Effective Trust Signaling. In Wakeman, I., Gudes, E., Jensen, C. D., Crampton, J. (Eds.). Trust Management V. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Malheiros, M., Brostoff, S., Jennett, C. and Sasse, M. A. (2012). Would You Sell Your Mother's Data for a Credit Card? Personal Data Disclosure in a Simulated Credit Card Application. Proceedings of WEIS 2012, Berlin, Germany, 25-26 June.
• Conti, N., Jennett, C., Maestre, J., and Sasse, M. A. (2012). When did my mobile turn into a 'sellphone'? A study of consumer responses to tailored smartphone ads. BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers, 2012 pp.215-220. Swinton, UK:British Computer Society.
• Jennett, C., Malheiros, M., Brostoff, S., and Sasse, M. A. (2012). Privacy for applicants versus lenders' needs for predictive power: Is it possible to bridge the gap? In Gutwirth, S., Leenes, R., De Hert, P., Poullet, Y. (Eds.)European Data Protection: In Good Health?, 2012 pp.35-51. SpringerLink.
• Porter C., Sasse M. A., and Letier E. (2012). Designing acceptable user registration processes for e-services. In Proceedings of HCI 2012 The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction. Birmingham, UK, 12 - 14 September 2012
• Krol, K., Moroz, M. and Sasse, M. A. (2012). Don't Work. Can't Work? Why It's Time to Rethink Security Warnings. 7th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS 2012), 10-12 October 2012, Cork, Ireland.
• Bartsch, S. and Sasse M.A. (2012) How Users Bypass Access Control and Why: The Impact of Authorization Problems on Individuals and the Organization. Technical Report RN/12/06. Department of Computer Science, University College London. London, UK.

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