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Human Factor in Security Administration: Brainstorming the Research Directions

Although usability has been acknowledged by the security community as one of the design goals back in 1970s, there is dearth of applications of HCI methods to the domain of computer security in general...

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Improving Practical Security Engineering: Overview of the Ongoing Research

Security engineering is about creating viable solutions to real-world security problems-solutions that would address the requirements, be cost-effective, competitive, and yet be subject to the...

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Toward Usable Security Administration

Administration of protection mechanisms for large networked information enterprises is challenging due to large numbers of application instances resources and users, complex and dynamic business...

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Toward Usable Security Administration

Administration of protection mechanisms for large networked information enterprises is challenging due to large numbers of application instances resources and users, complex and dynamic business...

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Usability of Security Administration vs. Usability of End-user Security

Having recently received increasing attention, usable security is implicitly all about the end user who employs a computer system to accomplish security-unrelated business or personal goals. However,...

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HOT Admin: Human, Organization, and Technology Centred Improvement of the IT...

While cryptography, access control, accountability, and other security technologies have received a great deal of attention, to our knowledge this is the first attempt to address systematically the...

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Summary of the HOT Admin Proposal

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Usable Security: Quo Vadis?

The presentation discusses the current state of HCISec and challanges for future research.

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Studying IT Security Professionals: Research Design and Lessons Learned

The HOT Admin Field Study used qualitative methods to study information technology security administrators. Both the nature of the field and the difficulty of gaining access to subjects had...

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On the Imbalance of the Security Problem Space and its Expected Consequences

This paper considers the attacker-defender game in the field of computer security as a three-dimensional phenomenon. The decomposition of the problem space into technological, human, and social factors...

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Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools

We report preliminary results of our ongoing field study of IT professionals who are involved in security management. We interviewed a dozen practitioners from five organizations to understand their...

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Understanding IT Security Administration through a Field Study

The security administration of large organizations is exceptionally challenging due to the increasingly large numbers of application instances, resources, and users; the growing complexity and dynamics...

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Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools

It is estimated that organizations worldwide will spend around $100 Billion USD on IT Security in 2007. A notable size of this will be spent on tools but little is known how effective IT security...

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A Study of Security Administration Errors

Security administrators prevent security breaches against their infrastructure by using their tools to implement the security policy. This paper deals with security administration errors that were...

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On the Imbalance of the Security Problem Space and its Expected Consequences

This paper considers the attacker-defender game in the field of computer security as a three-dimensional phenomenon. The decomposition of the problem space into technological, human, and social factors...

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Searching for the Right Fit: A Case Study of IT Security Management Model...

The usability of security systems within an organization is impacted not only by tool interfaces but also by the security management model (SMM) of the IT security team. Finding the right SMM is...

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Security Practitioners in Context: Their Activities and Interactions

This study develops the context of interactions of IT security practitioners. Preliminary qualitative analysis of 22 interviews (to date) and participatory observation has identified eight different...

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Security Practitioners in Context: Their Activities and Collaborative...

This study develops the context of interactions of IT security practitioners. Preliminary qualitative analysis of 22 interviews (to date) and participatory observation has identified eight different...

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HOT Admin Research Project: Overview and Results to Date

Security of information technology (IT) has become a critical issue for organizations as they must protect their information assets from unauthorized access and quickly resume business activities after...

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A Broad Empirical Study of IT Security Practioners

Security of information technology (IT) has become a critical issue for organizations as they must protect their information assets from unauthorized access and quickly resume business activities after...

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