Security Usability

  • Authors:
  • Peter Gutmann;Ian Grigg

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Auckland;Systemics

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In the security community, weýve always recognized that our security proposals come with certain costs in terms of usability. Traditionally, thatýs the compromise we make to get security. But the market has ruled against us. Time and time again, our fielded secure systems are ignored, bypassed, turned off, or constrained to such a small part of the process that the security result is practically nonexistent. Even worse for our mental self-satisfaction, those systems that claim to deliver security to users simply donýt pass muster--theyýre not what weýd like to think of as secure systems.