Simon Parkin

Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures

2019

Well-meaning cybersecurity risk owners will deploy countermeasures (technologies or procedures) to manage risks to their services or systems. In some cases, those countermeasures will produce unintended consequences, which must then be addressed. Unintended consequences can …

Unfit for purpose? Assessing the applicability of country-level IoT security advice

2025 · Journal of Cybersecurity

Abstract Existing research offers insights into the properties of security advice and user abilities to implement such advice, but lacks insight into whether this advice is fit for purpose when applied to the diversity of …