Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use

by Simson Garfinkel and Lorrie Cranor

Book Overview

Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues--both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human factors and because they lacked the expertise to address them.

But there is a growing recognition that today's security problems can be solved only by addressing issues of usability and human factors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596008279
• ISBN13: 9780596008277
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 738 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.1"