The economics of user effort in information security
2009
A significant number of security breaches result from employees' failures to comply with security policies. The cause is often an honest mistake, such as when an employee enters their password in a phishing website, believing it to be a legitimate one. 1 It can also be a workaround when faced with an impossible task, such as when an employee has so many different passwords that they must be written down. 2
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- Computer security
- Internet privacy
- Countermeasure (computer)
- Computer science
- Security through obscurity
- Network security policy
- Password policy
- Security convergence
- Certified Information Security Manager
- Information security audit
- Security information and event management
- Information security standards
- Security service
- Workaround
- Computer security model
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