Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Fight the Phish

View As Web Page Cybersecurity Insights a NIST Blog Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Fight the Phish This week's blog post highlighting Cybersecurity Awareness Month is from NIST's Dr. Shaneé Dawkins, Computer Scientist in ITL's Visualization and Usability Group. In this post, Shaneé  discusses Phishing attacks and scams, as well as ways to keep your information protected. How did you end up at NIST working on cybersecurity projects? I have been a computer scientist in ITL's Visualization and Usability Group for about 10 years conducting research on the human aspects of information technology. At the end of 2019, an opportunity was presented to join the group's Usable Cybersecurity program and I jumped at the chance. I always kept up-to-date on the program's research projects, so I was very excited to join something that had such a great real-world impact. Six months later I became the project lead for our phishing effort, studying human susceptibility to phish emails. Read More

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