Tech Giants, Researchers Team Up for "Simply Secure" Initiative

  • 19 September 2014
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By Eduard Kovacs on September 19, 2014
 
Google, Dropbox, the Open Technology Fund and several security researchers have joined forces for a new initiative that focuses on usable secure technologies.
The organization, called Simply Secure, wants to work with security and privacy experts, software developers, designers and user-experience specialists for creating open source security tools that are easy to use even by less tech-savvy people.
Simply Secure is led by Sara “Scout” Sinclair Brody, a product management and usability consultant who previously worked for Google, contributing to projects like Android, two-factor authentication and uProxy.
"Simply Secure represents an exciting opportunity to bring together diverse groups in pursuit of an important goal: making security and privacy tools more user-friendly. This transparent, community-focused approach is new, and represents a compelling adaptation of the open-source model to interaction design. Usable security has been a passion of mine for the past ten years, and I'm thrilled to be leading such a wide-ranging and well-supported initiative,” Sinclair Brody said.
 
SecurityWeek/ full article here/ http://www.securityweek.com/tech-giants-researchers-team-simply-secure-initiative

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