Building consumer trust online
Communications of the ACM
Applying the Technology Acceptance Model and Flow Theory to Online Consumer Behavior
Information Systems Research
Assessing a Firm's Web Presence: A Heuristic Evaluation Procedure for the Measurement of Usability
Information Systems Research
An Empirical Examination of the Concern for Information Privacy Instrument
Information Systems Research
Modeling the User Acceptance of E-Mail
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track1 - Volume 1
It's all about attitude: revisiting the technology acceptance model
Decision Support Systems
Beyond concern: a privacy-trust-behavioral intention model of electronic commerce
Information and Management
A Theoretical Integration of User Satisfaction and Technology Acceptance
Information Systems Research
Adoption of internet banking: an empirical study in Hong Kong
Decision Support Systems
Network externalities, layered protection and IT security risk management
Decision Support Systems
Four ethical issues of the information age
MIS Quarterly
User acceptance of hedonic information systems
MIS Quarterly
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Influencing mental models of security: a research agenda
Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on New security paradigms workshop
Stories as informal lessons about security
Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Theories in online information privacy research: A critical review and an integrated framework
Decision Support Systems
A multi-level model of individual information privacy beliefs
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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In the new era of a ubiquitously networked world, security measures are only as good as their weakest link. Home computers with access to the Internet are one of the weaker links as they are typically not as well protected as computers in the corporate world. Malicious actors can not only target such computers but also use them to launch attacks against other systems connected to the Internet, thus posing severe threats to data and infrastructure as well as disrupting electronic commerce. This paper investigates the factors that affect the use of security protection strategies by home computer users in relation to a specific, but crucial security technology for home - a software firewall. This paper proposes individuals' concern for privacy, awareness of common security measures, attitude towards security and privacy protection technologies, and computer anxiety as important antecedents that have an impact on the users' decision to adopt a software firewall. The results of our study suggest that attitude plays a more important role than perceived usefulness in shaping users' intention to use firewalls. We attribute this interesting finding to the non-functional nature of firewall systems that work best in the background with a complex relationship to users' productivity. Hence, the results add to our current understanding of Technology Acceptance Model vis-a-vis technologies that serve non-functional needs such as security. We then present a set of guidelines to home computer users, Internet Service Providers, e-commerce companies, and the government to increase home users' adoption rate of privacy and security protection technologies.