Transforming the 'Weakest Link' - a Human-Computer Interaction Approach to Usable and Effective security
Martina Angela Sasse, Sacha Brostoff, Dirk Weirich · Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks · 2002
With the exponential growth of networked systems and applications such as eCommerce, the demand for effective computer security is increasing. At the same time, the number and seriousness of security problems reported over the past couple of years indicates that organisations are more vulnerable than ever. In many of the reported cases, user behaviour enabled or facilitated the security breach. The security research community which hitherto largely ignored the human factor now acknowledges that security is only as good as it's weakest link, and people are the weakest link in the chain.