Study of internet security threats among home users

Author

Rao, Umesh Hodeghatta ; Pati, Bishwa Prakash

Author_Institution

Inst. of Manage., Bhubaneswar, India

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

221

Abstract

Recent news on financial losses due to lack of information security has created certain awareness of its importance among computer users. This paper presents the results arrived from an initial response of 340 questionnaires distributed to the home users, who are not computer savvy. The survey was conducted to assess the awareness of computer and internet security during their day-to-day usage of internet. Results show that a user´s awareness of security plays a significant role. This paper also proposes developing a software solution to protect home users´ computer system based on the internet usage and behavioral pattern.

Keywords

Internet; computer network security; computer viruses; home networks; Internet security awareness; Internet security threats; Internet usage; behavioral pattern; computer security awareness; computer security policies violation; computer users; financial losses; home user network; home users computer system; information confidentiality loss; information integrity disruption; information security; system availability denial; system availability disruption; system integrity disruption; user security awareness; Computer security; Computers; Information security; Internet; Operating systems; Ant-virus; Hacker; Home users´ security; cyber security; internet security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sao Carlos

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4793-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412405

Filename

6412405