All Publications

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• L. Kent, N. Tuptuk and I. Becker, Passing the Baton: Shift Handovers Within Cybersecurity Incident Response Teams, in Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, Online First, 2026. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• L. Kent, N. Tuptuk and I. Becker, A Comparative Analysis of Situational Awareness Support in Cyber Incident Response Ticketing Systems, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media, Cyber Science 2026, in press. UCL Discovery
• M. Ordekian, I. Becker, T. Moore and M. Vasek, Raising the Bar: Assessing Historical Cryptocurrency Exchange Practices in Light of the EU's MiCA and DORA Regulation, in Computer Law & Security Review, 59:106227, 2025. SSRN Preprint | Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
• D. Blackwell, I. Becker and D. Clark, Hyperfuzzing: black-box security hypertesting with a grey-box fuzzer, in Empirical Software Engineering, 30:22, 2025. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• G. Buckley, T. Caulfield and I. Becker, How might the GDPR evolve? A question of politics, pace and punishment, in Computer Law and Security Review, Volume 54, September 2024. Publisher Link | SSRN | UCL Discovery
• G. Buckley, T. Caulfield and I. Becker, GDPR and the indefinable effectiveness of privacy regulators: Can performance assessment be improved?, in Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2024. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• S. Zheng and I. Becker, Phishing to improve detection, in The 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security, EuroUSEC 2023. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• N. Sombatruang, T. Caulfield, I. Becker, A. Fujita, T. Kasama, K. Nakao and D. Inoue, Internet Service Providers' and Individuals' Attitudes, Barriers, and Incentives to Secure IoT, in 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2023. Preprint | UCL Discovery | Publisher link (with video and slides)
• S. Zheng and I. Becker, Checking, nudging or scoring? Evaluating e-mail user security tools, in Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2023. Publisher Link (with video and slides) | UCL Discovery
• M. Ordekian, I. Becker and M. Vasek, Shaping Cryptocurrency Gatekeepers with a Regulatory 'Trial and Error', in 4th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDecFin 2023. SSRN Preprint | UCL Discovery | Blogpost
• C. Weir, I. Becker and L. Blair, Incorporating software security: Using developer workshops to engage product managers, in Empirical Software Engineering, 2023. Publisher Version | Lancaster Research Directory | UCL Discovery
• G. Buckley, T. Caulfield and I. Becker, “It may be a pain in the backside but...” Insights into the resilience of business after GDPR, in New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW 2022. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery
• S. Zheng and I. Becker, Presenting Suspicious Details in User-Facing E-mail Headers Does Not Improve Phishing Detection, in Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2022. Publisher Link (with video and slides) | UCL Discovery
• P. Demetriou, I Becker, S. Hailes, Who Watches the Watchers: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Anomaly Detection, in 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2022. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery | Aftershock Project Website
• I. Becker, R. Posner, T. Islam, P. Ekblom, H. Borrion, M. McGuire and S. Li, Privacy in Transport? Exploring Perceptions of Location Privacy Through User Segmentation, in Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICCS 2021. Publisher Link | UCL Discovery | Best Paper Award Winner.
• C. Weir, I. Becker and L. Blair, A Passion for Security: Intervening to Help Software Developers, in Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2021. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• J. Morris, I. Becker and S. Parkin, An Analysis of Perceptions and Support for Windows 10 Home Edition Update Features, in Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2020. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
  This is a substantially extended and updated version of the 2019 USEC paper.
• C. Weir, I. Becker, J. Noble, L. Blair, M. A. Sasse, and A Rashid, Interventions for Long Term Software Security: Creating a lightweight program of assurance techniques for developers, in Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 50, Issue 3, 2020. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• T. Tasmina, I. Becker, R. Posner, P. Ekblom, M. McGuire, H. Borrion, and S. Li, A Socio-Technical and Co-Evolutionary Framework for Reducing Human-Related Risks in Cyber Security and Cybercrime Ecosystems, Proc. DependSys, 2019. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, Measuring and Understanding Security Behaviours, in Doctoral Thesis, UCL, 2019. UCL Discovery | Thesis Template
• C. Weir, L. Blair, I. Becker, M. A. Sasse, J. Noble, and A Rashid, Interventions for Software Security: Creating a Lightweight Program of Assurance Techniques for Developers, in 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, 2019. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• J. Morris, I. Becker and S. Parkin, In Control with no Control: Perceptions and Reality of Windows 10 Home Edition Update Features, in Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), 2019. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• C. Weir, L. Blair, I. Becker, M. A. Sasse, and J. Noble, Light-touch Interventions to Improve Software Development Security, in IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev 18), 2018. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Rewarding Users for Stronger Passwords: Linking Password Lifetime to Strength, in 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 18), 2018. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Blog Post
• A. Demjaha, J. M. Spring, I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Metaphors Considered Harmful? An Exploratory Study of the Effectiveness of Functional Metaphors for End-to-End Encryption, in USEC 2018: Workshop on Usable Security, 2018. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• I. Becker, A. Hutchings, R. Abu-Salma, R. Anderson, N. Bohm, S. Murdoch, and M. A. Sasse, International Comparison of Bank Fraud Reimbursement: Customer Perceptions and Contractual Terms, in Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 109–125, June 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Survey Dataset | T&C Dataset
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Measuring the Success of Context-Aware Security Behaviour Surveys, in Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER), 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• S. Dodier-Lazaro, R. Abu-Salma, I. Becker, and M. Sasse, From Paternalistic to User-Centred Security: Putting Users First with Value-Sensitive Design, in CHI 2017 Workshop on Values in Computing, 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Finding Security Champions in Blends of Organisational Culture, in Proc. EuroUSEC ’17, 2017. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery Also presented as a poster at SOUPS 2017.
• S. Dodier-Lazaro, I. Becker, J. Krinke, and M. A. Sasse, No Good Reason to Remove Features: Expert Users Value Useful Apps over Secure Ones, in Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, HAS 2017. Publisher Version
  Previously published as a UCL Computer Science Research Note, University College London, Computer Science, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, 17/03, Feb. 2017.
• S. Parkin, K. Krol, I. Becker, and M. Sasse, Applying Cognitive Control Modes to Identify Security Fatigue Hotspots, in Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
• S. J. Murdoch, I. Becker, R. Abu-Salma, R. Anderson, N. Bohm, A. Hutchings, M. A. Sasse, and G. Stringhini, Are Payment Card Contracts Unfair?, in Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2016. Publisher Version (not OA) | UCL Discovery | Dataset
• I. Becker, S. Parkin, and M. A. Sasse, Combining Qualitative Coding and Sentiment Analysis: Deconstructing Perceptions of Usable Security in Organisations, in Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results, LASER 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery
• I. Becker, A. Hutchings, R. Abu-Salma, R. Anderson, N. Bohm, S. J. Murdoch, M. A. Sasse and G. Stringhini, International Comparison of Bank Fraud Reimbursement: Customer Perceptions and Contractual Terms, in Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, WEIS 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Survey Dataset | T&C Dataset
• A. Beautement, I. Becker, S. Parkin, K. Krol, and M. A. Sasse, Productive Security: A Scalable Methodology for Analysing Employee Security Behaviours, in Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2016. Publisher Version | UCL Discovery | Dataset | Slides