The Practice Turn in IT Security | Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Making of IT Security

IT security is commonly considered a fundamental issue in the design, use and appropriation of digital technologies. The workshop proceeds from the observations that existing techno-centric approaches to IT security are lacking and that established notions of usable security limit questions of IT security to relatively narrow concerns for product quality and consumer competency. In contrast, the workshop explores how IT security emerges from a mesh of diverse practices, involving a range of actors such as software developers, security researchers, hackers, users, policy makers, non-profit organizations and so forth.