Social and Human Elements of Information Security: Emerging Trends and Countermeasures

by Gupta, Manish; Sharman, Raj

• ISBN13: 9781605660363
• ISBN10: 1605660361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Igi Global

Summary

"Social and Human Elements of Information Security: Emerging Trends and Countermeasures provides insightful, high-quality research into the social and human aspects of information security. A comprehensive source of the latest trends, issues, and findings in the field, this book fills the missing gap in existing literature by bringing together the most recent work from researchers in the fast and evolving field of information security."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Human and Psychological Aspects
Human and Social Aspects of Password Authentication	p. 1
Why Humans are the Weakest Link	p. 15
Impact of the Human Element on Information Security	p. 27
The Weakest Link: A Psychological Perspective on Why Users Make Poor Security Decisions	p. 43
Trusting Computers Through Trusting Humans: Software Verification in a Safety-Critical Information Society	p. 61
Social and Cultural Aspects
Information Security Culture as a Social System: Some Notes of Information Availability and Sharing	p. 77
Social Aspects of Information Security: An International Perspective	p. 98
Social and Human Elements of Information Security: A Case Study	p. 116
Effects of Digital Convergence on Social Engineering Attack Channels	p. 133
A Social Ontology for Integrating Security and Software Engineering	p. 148
Usability Issues
Security Configuration for Non-Experts: A Case Study in Wireless Network Configuration	p. 179
Security Usability Challenges for End-Users	p. 196
CAPTCHAs: Differentiating between Human and Bots	p. 220
Privacy Concerns when Modeling Users in Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems	p. 247
Organizational Aspects
An Adaptive Threat-Vulnerability Model and the Economics of Protection	p. 262
Bridging the Gap between Employee Surveillance and Privacy Protection	p. 283
Aligning IT Teams' Risk Management to Business Requirements	p. 301
Security Requirements Elicitation: An Agenda for Acquisition of Human Factors	p. 316
Do Information Security Policies Reduce the Incidence of Security Breaches: An Exploratory Analysis	p. 326
Compilation of References	p. 343
Index	p. 381
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