Despite significant efforts towards making systems autonomous, human input is still necessary, especially when it comes to critical decisions. This is highly relevant in the context of security in our always-online society: the trend of digitizing our everyday lives comes with complex security challenges and users are confronted with decisions that severely impact the attack surface. Furthermore, security mechanisms are often standing in the way of users instead of supporting them to make the right decisions.

My research mission is to solve this grand challenge with interdisciplinary research in the field of human-centric security. I have contributed empirical studies to understand human-security interactions as well as methodological and design work. In this talk, I present an overview of my work along with selected research highlights. I will also discuss directions for future work and opportunities for collaboration with LUMS faculty.