SAINTCON 2018 - Troy Jessup - Conference Opener and Keynotes

Описание: Using Neuroscience to improve the usability of Information Security
Bonnie Anderson

Bonnie Brinton Anderson is the Douglas and Effie Drigss Professor of Information Systems in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. She also serves as the department chair of the Information Systems Department. She has been at BYU since receiving her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. In addition to teaching classes on user experience design and technical leadership, Dr. Anderson is currently engaged in research in the intersection of neuroscience (fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking) and behavioral information systems security. Dr. Anderson and her colleagues use these neurophysiological tools to examine not only how computer users respond to computer security messages, but also why users respond the way they do. Her work is funded by the National Science Foundation and the White House Brain Initiative as well as a Google Faculty Research Grant. She has presented her work internationally and published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and other top journals. Dr. Anderson has a husband and four daughters. Her hobbies include traveling, playing the harp, family activities and the occasional shark encounter.

In information security, users are often described as being careless, clueless, or lazy. Fortunately, this dim view of users is changing to recognize that usable security has a lot to do with users' security decisions. At the Neurosecurity Research Lab at Brigham Young University, we're finding that this user stereotype is unfair on a whole different level, specifically, the neurobiological level. The way our brains work drives much of our behavior even security behavior without our being conscious of it. In this talk, I'll share the results of a series of experiments that combine functional magnetic resonance imaging (or fMRI), eye tracking, and traditional usability testing, to show how the way our brains work can sometimes make us the weakest link the security chain. I'll also discuss how these results suggest practical take-aways that you can use to make your security UI more usable.


Freeing the Mind: Security and power in a world without walls
Richard Thieme

Richard Thieme (www.thiemeworks.com) is an author/professional speaker who addresses challenges posed by new technologies, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. His speaking generally addresses “the human in the machine,†technology-related security and intelligence issues as they come home to our humanity. He has published hundreds of articles, dozens of stories, five books, and has delivered hundreds of speeches. A novel, FOAM, was published in 2015 and “A Richard Thieme Reader,†fiction and non-fiction, was published on Amazon Kindle in 2016. His column, "Islands in the Clickstream," was distributed to thousands in sixty countries before collection as a book in 2004. When a friend at NSA said, "The only way you can tell the truth is through fiction," he returned to writing short stories (35 published) and "Mind Games," a collection of nineteen stories about anomalies, infosec, professional intelligence and edgy realities, was published in 2010. More realities are illuminated in the critically extolled “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry†a 5-year team project using material from inside the military and intelligence communities to document government responses over 50 years, It is currently in 90+ university libraries. A sequel, “The UFO Phenomenon,†with Thieme as associate editor and contributor, is due in late 2018. Many speeches address creativity, shifts in identities, and technology-related security and intelligence issues. He spoke in 2017 at Def Con for the 22nd year. He has keynoted conferences around the world and clients range from GE, Microsoft, Medtronic, and Johnson Controls to the NSA, FBI, US Dept of the Treasury. Los Alamos Lab, and the US Secret Service.

We will explore the relationship of context to content in a world transformed by new technologies. It challenges traditional thinking rooted in prior technologies and explore how new technologies do not merely extend our senses and cognitive abilities but change us into human beings with new ways of experiencing ourselves. Those changes have profound implications for warfighting and for geopolitical thinking as they do for every aspect of our work and lives.


Teach them to Hack
Zane Durkin, Preston Pace, and Tanner Purves

Tanner Purves is a 20 year old college student majoring in Computer Science with an emphasis in Cyber Security at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. He has been a part of NeverLAN since its founding. There are many other things he could try to include in this statement to make him sound cool but in reality he is just another ordinary guy trying to hack all the things.


Own the Con
Jeremy Cox

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