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Mar 09

CyLab awards 2026 seed funding Opens in new window

This year, CyLab awarded nearly $500,000 in seed funding to 10 research projects featuring CMU students, faculty, and staff PIs representing nine departments at the university.

Feb 27

CyLab study shows user-centric threat modeling framework helps privacy experts spot twice as many digital privacy flaws Opens in new window

New CyLab research that expands on previous work with the UsersFIrst threat modeling framework shows that a user-centered approach to evaluating privacy notices and choices can make a measurable difference.

Feb 25

Lorrie Cranor receives 2026 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Opens in new window

Lorrie Cranor, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, has been named a recipient of the 2026 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, one of the highest honors in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).

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