Ariana Mirian: Improving Internet Security

Ariana is a PhD student at UC San Diego, where she works with the
Sysnet, CryptoSec, and CNS groups at UCSD, as well as the Center
for Evidence-based Security Research (CESR). She is advised by
Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage. As an undergrad, she started her
academic journey in a security lab as an coder. She soon realized
that the world of security would be an enthralling space that has
repercussions for everyone that uses a computer today, and after
doing some coding, she then moved more into a research-oriented
role. She discovered that one of security's problems revolved
around users and how users interact with our various security
mechanisms; and what good are our security mechanisms if they fail
to protect people? She then decided to dive into the intersection
of usable security and empirical analysis, or how we can use
environmental studies to determine user behavior, where is it going
wrong, and how we can fix it. This is the philosophy that drives
her research Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 33422]