The Privacy Calculus from Within: An Internal Calculus for Privacy Concerns

Presented by Ryan Kennedy as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity About the presentation Advances in data collection abilities, the rapid diffusion of smartphones, and recent large scale data breaches are causing consumers’ location privacy awareness and concerns to rise. Privacy related literature contains several …

Personality Trait Recognition in Online Social Networks for Cybersecurity

Presented by Pavan Kumar as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity About the presentation Recent advances in natural language processing and deep learning methods have facilitated security researchers and government agencies to analyze large-scale text data emerging on social networking platforms such as Twitter, by …

Un cadre de communication post incidents de cybersécurité d’entreprise efficace

Les incidents de cybersécurité peuvent amener diverses conséquences importantes sur une compagnie victime. Ces conséquences peuvent ensuite engendrer d’autres effets néfastes, comme nuire à la réputation de l’entreprise et ainsi causer la perte de clients ou de partenaires d’affaires. La hausse grandissante de cas répertorié de cyber incidents amène les experts à vouloir agir en …

A framework for effective corporate communication after cybersecurity incidents

Cybersecurity incidents can have various significant consequences on an organization or a company. These consequences can then lead to other adverse effects, such as damaging the company’s reputation and causing the loss of customers or business partners. The growing increase in reported cases of cyber incidents leads experts to want to act ahead by prioritizing …

Decentralized Finance: Landscape and Future Directions

Presented by Jeremy Clark as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity About the presentation Somewhat quietly, entrepreneurs have been reinventing financial services on the public blockchain Ethereum. Services include CAD and USD-backed currency, exchanges and margin trading, securities and derivatives, and credit and lending. Going …

Applying marketing principles to assess cybersecurity education training and awareness programs

Cybersecurity Management and prevention programs’ success and relevance depend primarily on improving employees’ security behaviours within an organization. Indeed, several existing programs make sure to apply those concepts, so employees have the proper tools and knowledge to intervene in a cybersecurity compromise situation within their organizations. Existing programs like education, training, and security awareness programs …

Appliquer des principes de marketing pour évaluer les programmes de formation et de sensibilisation à la cybersécurité

La réussite et la pertinence des programmes de gestion et/ou de prévention de la cybersécurité dépendent principalement de l’amélioration des comportements de sécurité des employés au sein d’une organisation. En effet, plusieurs programmes existent afin de former les employés et les outiller à bien intervenir en situation de compromission de la cybersécurité de leurs organisations …

Quantum Cryptography for Securing the Internet-of-Drones

Presented by Hussein Abulkassim as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity About the presentation The long-term success of emerging technologies such as the internet-of-things (IoT) highly depends on their ability to secure data and communications for a long time. Internet-of-drones (IoDs), as one of the …

Protecting Against Identity Theft: Victims’ Perspectives

Presented by Dylan Reynolds as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity About the presentation Rates of identity theft continue to increase in Canada, costing individual victims substantial amounts of money, time, and emotional stress. Drawing on ongoing interviews with victims of identity theft in Southern …

User Perceptions of Security Risks Related to Contact Tracing Technologies

Presented by Hervé Saint-Louis as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity. About the presentation Researchers and industry have proposed cellphone-based contact tracing to help contain the spread of SARS-COV-2 virus in people during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the efficacy of contact tracing requires a certain …