Assessing the usability of end-user security software

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

Volumn 6264 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 177-189

  Ibrahim, Tarik ^a,b   Furnell, Steven M ^a,c   Papadaki, Maria ^a   Clarke, Nathan L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Home Users; Human Computer Interaction (HCI); Intrusion Detection Systems; Network Scanning; Security; Security Software; Usability

Indexed keywords

HOME USERS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS; NETWORK SCANNING; SECURITY; SECURITY SOFTWARE; USABILITY;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTRUSION DETECTION; USABILITY ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

NETWORK SECURITY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78049358662     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15152-1_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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