Lorrie Cranor: Why Security Fails Real People [Afternoon Cyber Tea]

S9E121 - Lorrie Cranor: Why Security Fails Real People [Afternoon Cyber Tea]

Published: December 31, 2025

Duration: 23:45

While our team is out on winter break, please enjoy this episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson from our partners at Microsoft Security.


Dr. Lorrie Cranor, Director of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University joins Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft, on this week's episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea to discuss the critical gap between security design and real-world usability. They explore why security tools often fail users, the ongoing challenges with passwords and password less authentication, and how privacy expectations have evolved in an era of constant data coll...

Lorrie Cranor: Why Security Fails Real People [Afternoon Cyber Tea] - CyberWire Daily