Kate Labunets
Dr. Kate Labunets is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University and co-chair and founding member of the ACCSS Working Group on Human Factors in Cyber Security. Her research focuses on human factors in cybersecurity, usability of security mechanisms, and security behaviour. The goal of her research is to make security decisions and practices more effective, evidence-based, and user-centred. Kate has delivered invited talks across academia, industry, and policy, including USENIX Security, ICT.Open, VERSEN SENSymposium, and BEREC’s Stakeholder Forum, and was a keynote speaker at OWASP Global AppSec EU 2025 in Barcelona.
Sessie
Shadow IT, the use of unauthorized IT in the workplace, is widespread across organizations and takes many forms. While it offers flexibility and helps people get their work done, it also creates new attack vectors and challenges for cybersecurity management. In this talk, we combine results from several research studies to better understand and address these risks.