Jul 25, 2008 | Research library
Information security is one of the major challenges for organizations that critically depend on information systems to conduct their businesses. Ensuring safety of information and technology resources has become the top priority for many organizations since the...
Jul 4, 2008 | Research library
Safety cues are frequently used in online stores to relieve consumers’ risk perceptions concerning online purchases. This paper uses regulatory focus theory (RFT) to predict the persuasiveness of online safety cues. According to RFT (Higgins, 1997), people process...
Jul 3, 2008 | Research library
Companies collect personally identifiable information that website visitors are not always comfortable sharing. One proposed remedy is to use economics rather than legislation to address privacy risks by creating a marketplace for privacy where website visitors would...
Jun 20, 2008 | Research library
Intentional insider misuse of information systems resources (i.e., IS misuse) represents a significant threat to organizations. For example, industry statistics suggest that between 50%–75% of security incidents originate from within an organization. Because of the...
May 19, 2008 | Research library
While good user education can hardly secure a system, we believe that poor user education can put it at serious risk. The current problem of online fraud is exasperated by the fact that most users make security decisions, such as whether to install a given piece of...
May 8, 2008 | Research library
We report the results of a large scale study of password use and password re-use habits. The study involved half a million users over a three month period. A client component on users’ machines recorded a variety of password strength, usage and frequency metrics. This...
