LAMIH Seminar "Interdisciplinary Safety Tapas
As part of the scientific animation of the computer science of LAMIH, a seminar will be held by Enka Blanchard, CNRS research fellow at LAMIH.
Summary: As the acronym PEBCAK goes, a lot of the problems originate between the chair and the keyboard. Security (whether cyber or physical) is no slouch, and the best cryptographic algorithms remain defeated by the use of the "admin/password1" combo. The last 20 years have seen the emergence of new research directions aimed at understanding how individuals and organizations interact with security systems, and how these rarely rational interactions must be integrated into the study of systems to ensure their security. This research, however, requires a familiarity with the social sciences and has had difficulty breaking through in the monodisciplinary environments often found in France.
During this seminar I plan to give an introduction to this subfield through an overview of three of my study topics: password management, securing (or not) electronic voting, and internal contradictions undermining security in large organizations (and the impact of this on the QWL questionnaire you had to fill out a few weeks ago). I'll end by talking about more general issues of research organization in connection with an article due out this month on productivism (I'll post the link as soon as the article is online).