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 can be
broadly used by untrained computer users.
Still, many people believe there is an inherent tradeoff between
computer security and usability. It's true that a computer without
passwords is usable, but not very secure. A computer that makes you
authenticate every five minutes with a password and a fresh drop of
blood might be very secure, but nobody would use it. Clearly,
people need computers, and if they can't use one that's secure,
they'll use one that isn't. Unfortunately, unsecured systems aren't
usable for long, either. They get hacked, compromised, and
otherwise rendered useless.
There is increasing agreement that we need to design secure
systems that people can actually use, but less agreement about how
to reach this goal. "Security & Usability" is the first
book-length work describing the current state of the art in this
emerging field. Edited by security experts Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor
and Dr. Simson Garfinkel, and authored by cutting-edge security and
human-computer
interaction (HCI) researchers world-wide, this volume is
expected to become both a classic reference and an inspiration for
future research.
"Security & Usability" groups 34 essays into six parts:
Realigning Usability and Security---with careful attention to
user-centered design principles, security and usability can be
synergistic.
Authentication Mechanisms-- techniques for identifying and
authenticating computer users.
Secure Systems--how system software can deliver or destroy a
secure user experience.
Privacy and Anonymity Systems--methods for allowing people to
control the release of personal information.
Commercializing Usability: The Vendor Perspective--specific
experiences of security and software vendors (e.g.,
IBM, Microsoft, Lotus, Firefox, and Zone Labs) in addressing
usability.
The Classics--groundbreaking papers that sparked the field of
security and usability.
This book is expected to start an avalanche of discussion, new
ideas, and further advances in this important field.
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