Lea Gröber: Understanding self-hosting and security through Nextcloud

About this episode

Lea Gröber discusses motivations for self-hosting and the importance of usable security in digital infrastructure.

So many Nextclouders - from enterprise and education to activists and families - decide to self-host their privacy-focused IT infrastructure. What exactly motivates us to self-host? Is this inherently an increased data security risk? What of the grit needed to host your own digital infrastructure? The answers to these questions may surprise you! Lea Gröber, PhD student in Usable Security @ CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, shares insight from two recent studies exploring motivations in self-hosting and Nextclouders specifically. We explore the topic of Usable Security and how, in terms of security, the human aspect of your digital infrastructure may be the most important, and yet the least understood. Afterall, "Users are not the enemy."

People in this episode

Guest: Lea Gröber

Topics covered

• self-hosting
• data security
• usable security
• Nextcloud
• privacy
• digital infrastructure

Keywords

• self-hosting
• data security
• Nextcloud
• usable security
• privacy-focused IT

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

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