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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Simon Parkin, Professor Aad van Moorsel
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Recent advances in the research of usable security have produced many new security mechanisms that improve usability. However, these mechanisms have not been widely adopted in practice. In most organisations, IT security managers decide on security policies and mechanisms, seemingly without considering usability. IT security managers consider risk reduction and the business impact of information security controls, but not the impact that controls have on users. Rather than trying to remind security managers of usability, we present a new paradigm -- a stealth approach which incorporates the impact of security controls on users' productivity and willingness to comply into business impact and risk reduction. During two 2-hour sessions, 3 IT security managers discussed with us mock-up tool prototypes that embody these principles, alongside a range of potential usage scenarios (e.g. cloud-based password-cracking attacks and "hot-desking" initiatives). Our tool design process elicits findings to help develop mechanisms to visualise these tradeoffs.
Author(s): Parkin S, van Moorsel A, Inglesant P, Sasse MA
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: NSPW 2010: Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on New Security Paradigms
Year of Conference: 2010
Pages: 33-49
Publisher: ACM
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1900546.1900553
DOI: 10.1145/1900546.1900553
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781450304153
