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Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use
Lorrie Cranor
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Description for Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use
Paperback. There is increasing agreement that we need to design secure computer systems that people can actually use, but less agreement about how to reach this goal. This work collects 34 essays from leading security and human-computer interaction researchers on authentication, privacy and anonymity, secure systems, commercialization, and more. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, 2 ports. BIC Classification: URY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 181 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1246.
Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues - both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human factors and because they lacked the expertise to address them. But, there is a growing recognition that today's security problems can be solved only by addressing issues of usability and human factors. Increasingly, well-publicized security breaches are attributed to human errors that might have been prevented through more usable software. Indeed, the world's future cyber-security depends upon the deployment of security technology that ... Read more
Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues - both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human factors and because they lacked the expertise to address them. But, there is a growing recognition that today's security problems can be solved only by addressing issues of usability and human factors. Increasingly, well-publicized security breaches are attributed to human errors that might have been prevented through more usable software. Indeed, the world's future cyber-security depends upon the deployment of security technology that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9780596008277
SKU
V9780596008277
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About Lorrie Cranor
Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor is a principal technical staff member in the Secure Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, New Jersey. She is chair of the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium. Her research has focused on a variety of areas where technology and policy issues ... Read more
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