A survey of factors influencing people's perception of information security

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4553 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2007, Pages 906-915

  Huang, Ding Long ^a   Rau, Pei Luen Patrick ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Information security; Perception; Survey

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER USERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN FACTORS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 38149038797     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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