Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Security Applications, 2000. ACSAC '00. 16th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0859-6
DOI :
10.1109/ACSAC.2000.898889
