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Start date:
Jan 2020
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End date:
May 2020
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Contact:
Co-Principal Investigator
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Funder:
- BBSRC
Reconfigure is a feminist cybersecurity project that uses community-based participatory methods and feminist approaches to reconfigure cybersecurity research and build public capacity for data privacy and action.
Overview
Threat modelling procedures in cybersecurity rely on experts to identify vulnerabilities and potential attackers. This process often reflects the assumptions and concerns about causes of insecurity among researchers, many of whom focus on security perspectives from the point of view of governments and large organisations. There are, however, many ways that citizens can understand threats in robust ways from their everyday experience.
Following feminist approaches to knowledge creation and the emerging ‘design justice’ model for technology design, this project helps citizens draw on their own experiences and individual positionality to expand cybersecurity research in threat modelling and usable security design. We do this through a series of public workshops and focus group discussions on personal data privacy.
Rather than dictating what threats citizens should be worrying about, this project elicits and listens to citizens’ concerns to expand the scope of threat modelling in cybersecurity. This process creates pathways for citizens to engage in shaping future research directions for cybersecurity: ones that are grounded in the lived experience of those who are traditionally excluded from discussions of cyber- or information security. The project will culminate with a series of reports for public dissemination.
People
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Julia Slupska
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator
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Professor Gina Neff
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Co-Principal Investigator
Blog
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Challenging gender stereotypes in cybersecurity: a feminist perspective
Date Published: 8 March 2020 - 9:59 am
Authors: Sara Spinks
A Blog by Julia Slupska, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity, Oxford Internet Institute and Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Cyber Technologist, Darktrace. Slupska ...
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