03. Juli 2014 von 11:00 – 12:00 Uhr

Ort: S2|02 (Piloty), Raum B002

Dozent/-in: Dr. Alexander De Luca, Universität München, LFE Medieninformatik

With the introduction of smartphones, the amount of private and sensitive data on mobile devices has finally reached a critical mass worth protecting, which is in most of the cases done using PINs and passwords. While they are neither great nor very secure for desktop computers and ATMs, they perform even worse on mobile devices.

In this talk, I will describe the smartphone authentication dilemma and present research that tries to overcome this problem, that is, making authentication on mobile devices more usable and more secure. I will finally present a list of dos and don’ts for designing authentication systems for smartphones.

Speaker's bio:
Dr. Alexander De Luca is currently working as a postdoc at the Media Informatics Group, University of Munich (LMU) and as a privacy/security researcher at Fraunhofer FKIE. His main research interest is usable privacy and security with a focus on authentication mechanisms for different platforms. His published work includes but is not limited to: location privacy, authentication mechanisms for public spaces and mobile devices, data privacy, anti-phishing.

His current research focuses on security and privacy issues of mobile devices. He also co-organized several workshops and special interest groups on this topic including the SPMU workshop series.