Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Maryland
Elissa is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, with a concentration in Survey Methodology, at the University of Maryland. Her work focuses on understanding how users make security decisions and developing security education interventions for at-risk users.
Elissa is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Facebook Fellow, and was a 2015 University of Chicago Data Science for Social Good Fellow. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D. she was a Marketing Manager for IBM, and also developed curriculum and studied computer science education.
Why installing software updates makes us WannaCry
May 16, 2017 16:40 pm UTC| Technology
The global ransomware attack called WannaCry, which began last week and continues today, could have been avoided, or at least made much less serious, if people (and companies) kept their computer software up to date. The...
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