My collaborator Dr. Karen Renaud and I have been examining cybersecurity fear appeals for over a year and a half now. In addition to a review of their use in cybersecurity, we also examined the ethics surrounding their use. This is a short video that she put together based on our work in this area. We recently had a paper accepted, “Scoping the Ethical Principles of Cybersecurity Fear Appeals,” in the journal Ethics and Information Technology, which will be available to the public shortly via open access.
How Easy it is to Lose Your Important Files and Ways you can Protect Them with the 3-2-1 Backup Rule
Note: This is a combined video of the two shorter ones.
Keeping Our Important Data and Files Safe Using the 3-2-1 Backup Rule
Threats to our Data and Files
This video discusses how easy it is to lose important data and files. Various scenarios are presented along with statistics related to data and device loss.
Northshore cyber attack effects continue
Interviewed to discuss cybersecurity attack on the Northshore School District. Northshore cyber attack effects continue: https://www.bothell-reporter.com/news/northshore-cyber-attack-effects-continue/
– The Bothell-Kenmore Reporter (October 2019)
Cybersecurity Fear Appeals: Unexpectedly Complicated
My collaborator Dr. Karen Renaud and I have been examining the use of fear appeals within the cybersecurity domain. In short, determining the efficacy of fear appeals in cybersecurity is complicated. She put together a video based on a paper that was presented at the New Security Paradigms Workshop in 2019.
Renaud, K. and Dupuis, M. 2019. Cyber Security Fear Appeals: Unexpectedly Complicated. In New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW ’19), September 23–26, 2019, San Carlos, Costa Rica. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3368860.3368864
Cybersecurity Fear Appeals: Unexpectedly Complicated from Karen Renaud on Vimeo.
Malware beware: cyber security is on the rise at UW Bothell
Interviewed to discuss cybersecurity in general, and what we’re doing at UW Bothell in particular: “Malware beware: cyber security is on the rise at UW Bothell”
– The Woodinville Weekly (September 2017)
A Discussion on Election Security prior to the 2016 Election
I was interviewed by “The Impact” in 2016 to discuss election security prior to the upcoming election.
Major U.S. websites disrupted by cyberattacks
Interviewed to discuss the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Domain Name Service (DNS) servers on the East Coast. “Major U.S. websites disrupted by cyberattacks”: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/us-internet-disrupted-by-cyberattacks/
– Seattle Times (October 2016)
Insider Threat
Interviewed to discuss the risks insider threats pose to organizations. “Inside Threat”: http://425business.com/inside-threat/
– 425 Business Magazine (August 2016)