Oksana Kulyk is associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and a member of the Center for Information Security and Trust (CIST).

She has previously worked as a post-doc in the Security, Usability and Society (SECUSO) research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her research interests is focused on human factors in security and privacy, including privacy-related decision support for end users and risk communication, as well as issues of security and privacy in electronic voting. Until December 2020, she worked in the Danish Centre for Cybersecurity, investigating cybersecurity and privacy practices in Danish companies.

Humans are often referred to as “the weakest link” when it comes to protecting security, and indeed many of the cyberattacks rely on human error on insecure behaviour to succeed. However, commonly used measures to teach or force compliance with security policies often fail. A common reason for such failures is putting the blame and responsibility on the user instead of considering psychological and socio-technical factors that influence people’s secure behaviour or lack of it. In this webinar Oksana will present the main issues related to human behaviour and decision making related to security protection measures, possible solutions and open challenges.