Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia
beznosov@ece.ubc.ca
Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, where he founded and has been directing the Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE) since 2004. His research interests are in human and social aspects of cyber security and privacy, AI security, and systems security. Prior UBC, he was a Security Architect at two consulting and R&D start-ups. Besides many academic papers, he is also a co-author of “Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA” and “Mastering Web Services Security” books, as well as XACML and several CORBA security specifications. He has served on program committees of top academic conferences in the fields of cybersecurity (USENIX Security, ACM CCS, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, NDSS, ACSAC, SACMAT), and usable privacy and security (USENIX SOUPS, ACM SIG CHI). Prof. Beznosov served as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) and Elsevier’s Computers & Security.
- Mokhberi, Azadeh, Yue Huang, Guillaume Humbert, Borke Obada-Obieh, Masoud Mehrabi Koushki, and Konstantin Beznosov. 2024. “Trust, Privacy, and Safety Factors Associated with Decision Making in P2P Markets Based on Social Networks: A Case Study of Facebook Marketplace in USA and Canada.” Pp. 1–25 in Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
- Koushki, Masoud Mehrabi, Yue Huang, Julia Rubin, and Konstantin Beznosov. 2022. “Neither Access nor Control: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Efficacy of User Access-Control Solutions on Smartphones.” Pp. 917–935 in Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22).
- Obada-Obieh, Borke, Yue Huang, Lucrezia Spagnolo, and Konstantin Beznosov. 2022. “SoK: The Dual Nature of Technology in Sexual Abuse.” Pp. 2320–2343 in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE
- Abramova, Svetlana, Artemij Voskobojnikov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Rainer Böhme. 2021. “Bits under the Mattress: Understanding Different Risk Perceptions and Security Behaviors of Crypto-Asset Users.” Pp. 1–19 in Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
- Voskobojnikov, Artemij, Oliver Wiese, Masoud Mehrabi Koushki, Volker Roth, and Konstantin Beznosov. 2021. “The U in Crypto Stands for Usable: An Empirical Study of User Experience with Mobile Cryptocurrency Wallets.” Pp. 1–14 in Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
- Huang, Yue, Borke Obada-Obieh, and Konstantin Beznosov. 2020. “Amazon vs. My Brother: How Users of Shared Smart Speakers Perceive and Cope with Privacy Risks.” Pp. 1–13 in Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.