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Projects Human-Centered Cybersecurity Research Areas

Human-Centered Cybersecurity

Privacy

We conduct research with an end goal of improving the usability of privacy mechanisms so that people are better able to protect their sensitive information online. Privacy is often integrated into our other research areas (also see Internet of Things, User Perceptions & Behaviors, Youth Security & Privacy).

Pursuant to September 29, 2026, Executive Order 14434: Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence. AI has been changed to SI except when referring to previously completed work and historical documents per Executive Order Section 2 (b), this does not require the alteration of previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents.

 

Publications

Papers

Non-breach Privacy Events paper icon - Simson L Garfinkel & Mary Theofanos. IEEE Security & Privacy (2018)

Preserving Privacy – More Than Reading a Message paper icon - Susanne M. Furman & Mary F. Theofanos. Proceedings of the International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (2014)

 

Contacts

NIST Human-Centered Cybersecurity
[email protected]

Julie Haney

Created November 17, 2016, Updated October 28, 2026