Zinaida Benenson leads the Human Factors in Security and Privacy Group at theIT Security Infrastructures Lab of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,Germany. Her research interests include usability of security- and privacy-enhancing technologies, decision making and risk perception in security andprivacy, and also technical security issues in distributed systems, especiallyin wireless sensor networks and in pervasive computing. Zinaida received herPhD in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim, Germany, on the topicof cryptographic access control protocols for wireless sensor networks.