Professor Karen Renaud

Contact info

k.renaud@abertay.ac.uk

+44 (0)1382 30 8236

Biography

I am a Computing Scientist working on all aspects of Human-Centred Security and Privacy. I was educated at the Universities of Pretoria, South Africa and Glasgow. I am particularly interested in deploying behavioural science techniques to improve security behaviours, and in encouraging end-user privacy-preserving behaviours.

In 2016/17 I was one of five UK Cyber Security Fulbright Awardees and spent 7 months working with Prof Merrill Warkentin at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.I joined the Division of Cybersecurity at the University of Abertay in October 2017.

More info here: http://www.karenrenaud.com

I teach two courses called Engineering Resilient Systems with Adam Sampson and Xavier Bellekens, one at Honours level and one at Masters level. These courses bring together concepts of human-centred security, machine learning and secure software engineering.

My research area is Human-Centred Security. Basically I want to improve the boundary where humans and cyber security meet.

Latest publications:

Karen Renaud, Bob Otondo, Merrill Warkentin. "This is the way ‘I’ create my passwords" ... does the endowment effect deter people from changing the way they create their passwords? Computers & Security Volume 82, May 2019, Pages 241-260
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1YNsR_3pcoUG-z?

Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Theofanos, Karen Renaud, Suzanne Prior. Case Study – Exploring Children’s Password Knowledge and Practices. USEC 2019. 24 February. San Diego

Nora Alkaldi and Renaud, Karen, Encouraging Password Manager Adoption by Meeting Adopter Self-Determination Needs (Extended Version) (October 2, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3259563

For more info my personal web page is at www.karenrenaud.com

See www.karenrenaud.com/pubs.html