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Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines

The current state of information security compliance in workplaces is deteriorating. In many cases human factors were attributed as the cause of the problem.Humans are well known as the weakest link in the security chain.Commonly, end-users will depend on security messages when confronted with secur...

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Main Authors: Zakaria, Nur Haryani, Katuk, Norliza
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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QA76 Computer software
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/13775/1/4.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRIIS.2013.6716697
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spelling my.uum.repo.137752015-04-08T07:13:32Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13775/ Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines Zakaria, Nur Haryani Katuk, Norliza QA76 Computer software The current state of information security compliance in workplaces is deteriorating. In many cases human factors were attributed as the cause of the problem.Humans are well known as the weakest link in the security chain.Commonly, end-users will depend on security messages when confronted with security-related decision making. Most of the time, end-users will try their best to make sense of unclear instructions in order to cope with situations.This indicates the way security messages are presented is of utmost importance. However, research focusing on designing effective security messages is quite limited.This paper presents research in progress, towards designing effective security messages focusing on passwords guidelines.Our initial review indicated the lack of persuasive elements in the current password guidelines may lead to unmotivated behaviour of producing good (strong) passwords.This paper also includes initial results obtained from pilot study which reveal promising results supporting the usage of persuasion strategies to improve the current state information security compliance. 2013-11-27 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/13775/1/4.pdf Zakaria, Nur Haryani and Katuk, Norliza (2013) Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines. In: International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS 2013), 27-28 Nov. 2013, Kuala Lumpur. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRIIS.2013.6716697 doi:10.1109/ICRIIS.2013.6716697
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Zakaria, Nur Haryani
Katuk, Norliza
Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines
description The current state of information security compliance in workplaces is deteriorating. In many cases human factors were attributed as the cause of the problem.Humans are well known as the weakest link in the security chain.Commonly, end-users will depend on security messages when confronted with security-related decision making. Most of the time, end-users will try their best to make sense of unclear instructions in order to cope with situations.This indicates the way security messages are presented is of utmost importance. However, research focusing on designing effective security messages is quite limited.This paper presents research in progress, towards designing effective security messages focusing on passwords guidelines.Our initial review indicated the lack of persuasive elements in the current password guidelines may lead to unmotivated behaviour of producing good (strong) passwords.This paper also includes initial results obtained from pilot study which reveal promising results supporting the usage of persuasion strategies to improve the current state information security compliance.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Zakaria, Nur Haryani
Katuk, Norliza
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Katuk, Norliza
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title Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines
title_short Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines
title_full Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines
title_fullStr Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines
title_full_unstemmed Towards designing effective security messages: Persuasive password guidelines
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url http://repo.uum.edu.my/13775/1/4.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRIIS.2013.6716697
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