Lorrie Faith Cranor
Carnegie Mellon Professor | Cybersecurity & Software Engineering Innovation
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Lorrie Faith Cranor is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-computer interaction and cybersecurity. As Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, she directs the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute.
Cranor's influential work has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Her keynotes blend technical expertise with human insights, showing organizations how to build more secure and usable software systems.
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What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without compromising the security of any users? That's a story in itself. It's secret data worth knowing, especially if your password is 123456 ...
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| TEDxCMU 2014 | 2014 | 🇺🇸Pittsburgh, United States |
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