Usability meets security - the Identity-Manager as your personal security assistant for the Internet

Author

Jendricke, Uwe ; Markotten, Daniela Gerd tom

Author_Institution

Inst. for Comput. Sci. & Social Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Univ., Freiburg, Germany

fYear

2000

fDate

36861

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

353

Abstract

In today´s applications, most users disregard the security functionality. They do not have the knowledge and/or the motivation to configure or to use the existing security functions correctly. In this paper, we present a new concept to improve the usability of security mechanisms, introducing an extended classification of protection goals. As a result, the everyday use of security functionality can be reduced to selecting the user´s identity, which is the basis of the Identity-Manager, a new security tool presented in this paper. It offers a user interface for security functionality that is compatible with all Internet applications, so even inexperienced users are able to configure and negotiate their security needs in a convenient way

Keywords

Internet; authorisation; human factors; personal computing; telecommunication security; user interfaces; Identity-Manager; Internet applications; inexperienced users; personal security assistant; protection goals; security functionality; security functions configuration; security mechanism usability; security needs negotiation; user identity selection; user interface; Application software; Computer science; Computer security; Internet; Navigation; Protection; Psychology; Telematics; Usability; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Security Applications, 2000. ACSAC '00. 16th Annual Conference

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0859-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSAC.2000.898889

Filename

898889