Every year, we get new tech and new gadgets to make our lives easier. With it comes more new passwords to remember and possibly new threats to our privacy. It's easy to lose track of all the information or be overwhelmed with how it might be exposed to unintended uses. In this interactive talk and workshop, cybersecurity expert Allison Bishop will show you some basic math tricks that can help anyone think more systematically about personal cybersecurity and allow you to make more informed decisions around the tradeoffs between your personal security and technological convenience.
Doors open 7pm, Event begins 7:30pm
This event is 21+
Allison Bishop
Allison Bishop is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, and co-author of a children's book about math. She is currently a co-founder of Proof Trading and an adjunct assistant professor of computer science at Columbia University. Her scientific research spans the fields of cryptography, distributed systems, and machine learning. In her quest to make computer science and cryptology accessible to both researchers and the public, she has also founded the Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in cryptology (CFAIL).