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Valuing Information Security: A Look at the Influence of User Engagement on Information Security Strength
- Source :
- Journal of Information Privacy and Security. 13:137-156
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- This study looks at the influence of user engagement on users’ information security practices. A model describing how user engagement (user posts) may influence a person’s decision to employ better security measures (stronger passwords) is tested. Password strength was determined by looking at password length, the types of characters used, the variety of character sequences used, the number of duplicate passwords, and the number of uncrackable passwords. Passwords were tested using a variety of cracking techniques. This study found that individuals from an online gaming site who made more posts to the user forum employed stronger passwords.
- Subjects :
- Password
Password policy
Cognitive password
Character (computing)
Computer science
business.industry
05 social sciences
Internet privacy
02 engineering and technology
Information security
Password strength
Variety (cybernetics)
World Wide Web
ComputingMilieux_MANAGEMENTOFCOMPUTINGANDINFORMATIONSYSTEMS
User engagement
020204 information systems
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
0509 other social sciences
050904 information & library sciences
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2333696X and 15536548
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Information Privacy and Security
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c81e780a5c868dcfd09612d11171d2e6