Publication Details
Title: Scaling the Security Wall: Developing a Security Behavior Intentions Scale (SeBIS)
Author: S. Egelman and E. Peer
Bibliographic Information: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15), New York, New York
Date: April 2015
Research Area: Networking and Security, Usable Security and Privacy
Type: Article in conference proceedings
PDF: https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/scalingwall15.pdf
Overview:
Despite the plethora of security advice and online education materials offered to end-users, there exists no standard measurement tool for end-user security behaviors. We present the creation of such a tool. We surveyed the most common computer security advice that experts offer to end-users in order to construct a set of Likert scale questions to probe the extent to which respondents claim to follow this advice. Using these questions, we iteratively surveyed a pool of 3,619 computer users to refine our question set such that each question was applicable to a large percentage of the population, exhibited adequate variance between respondents, and had high reliability (i.e., desirable psychometric properties). After performing both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, we identified a 16-item scale consisting of four sub-scales that measures attitudes towards choosing passwords, device securement, staying up-to-date, and proactive awareness.
Acknowledgements:
This work was partially supported by funding provided to ICSI through National Science Foundation grant CNS : 1343433 (“EAGER: Designing Individualized Privacy and Security Systems”). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors or originators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Bibliographic Reference:
S. Egelman and E. Peer. Scaling the Security Wall: Developing a Security Behavior Intentions Scale (SeBIS). Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15), New York, New York, April 2015
Author: S. Egelman and E. Peer
Bibliographic Information: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15), New York, New York
Date: April 2015
Research Area: Networking and Security, Usable Security and Privacy
Type: Article in conference proceedings
PDF: https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/scalingwall15.pdf
Overview:
Despite the plethora of security advice and online education materials offered to end-users, there exists no standard measurement tool for end-user security behaviors. We present the creation of such a tool. We surveyed the most common computer security advice that experts offer to end-users in order to construct a set of Likert scale questions to probe the extent to which respondents claim to follow this advice. Using these questions, we iteratively surveyed a pool of 3,619 computer users to refine our question set such that each question was applicable to a large percentage of the population, exhibited adequate variance between respondents, and had high reliability (i.e., desirable psychometric properties). After performing both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, we identified a 16-item scale consisting of four sub-scales that measures attitudes towards choosing passwords, device securement, staying up-to-date, and proactive awareness.
Acknowledgements:
This work was partially supported by funding provided to ICSI through National Science Foundation grant CNS : 1343433 (“EAGER: Designing Individualized Privacy and Security Systems”). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors or originators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Bibliographic Reference:
S. Egelman and E. Peer. Scaling the Security Wall: Developing a Security Behavior Intentions Scale (SeBIS). Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15), New York, New York, April 2015