Understanding IT Security Administration through a Field Study
The security administration of large organizations is exceptionally challenging due to the increasingly large numbers of application instances, resources, and users; the growing complexity and dynamics...
View ArticleDetecting, Analyzing and Responding to Security Incidents: A Qualitative...
This study develops categories of responses to security incidents, based on a grounded theory analysis of interviews with security practitioners, with a focus on the tasks performed during security...
View ArticleTowards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools
It is estimated that organizations worldwide will spend around $100 Billion USD on IT Security in 2007. A notable size of this will be spent on tools but little is known how effective IT security...
View ArticleA Study of Security Administration Errors
Security administrators prevent security breaches against their infrastructure by using their tools to implement the security policy. This paper deals with security administration errors that were...
View ArticleProceedings of the Second EECE 512 Mini-Conference on Computer Security
The proceedings of the second mini-conference of the EECE 512 course on Topics in Computer Security include four papers: 1. "Controlling Access to Resources Within The Python Interpreter" by Brett...
View ArticleCooperative Secondary Authorization Recycling
As distributed applications such as Grid and enterprise systems scale up and become increasingly complex, their authorization infrastructures—based predominantly on the request-response paradigm—are...
View ArticleOn the Imbalance of the Security Problem Space and its Expected Consequences
This paper considers the attacker-defender game in the field of computer security as a three-dimensional phenomenon. The decomposition of the problem space into technological, human, and social factors...
View ArticleSearching for the Right Fit: A Case Study of IT Security Management Model...
The usability of security systems within an organization is impacted not only by tool interfaces but also by the security management model (SMM) of the IT security team. Finding the right SMM is...
View ArticleHuman, Organizational and Technological Factors of IT Security
Given that Information Technology (IT) has become pervasive in today’s organizations, properly securing systems is critical. However, many challenges remain with respect to implementing sound...
View ArticleHuman, Organizational, and Technological Factors of IT Security
This paper describes the HOT Admin research project, which is investigating the human, organizational, and technological factors of IT security from the perspective of security practitioners. We use...
View ArticleSearching for the Right Fit: Considerations when Balancing IT Security...
The effectiveness of IT security professionals in an organization is influenced not only by the usability of security management tools, but also by the fit of an organization's security management...
View ArticleSecurity Practitioners in Context: Their Activities and Interactions
This study develops the context of interactions of IT security practitioners. Preliminary qualitative analysis of 22 interviews (to date) and participatory observation has identified eight different...
View ArticleSecurity Practitioners in Context: Their Activities and Collaborative...
This study develops the context of interactions of IT security practitioners. Preliminary qualitative analysis of 22 interviews (to date) and participatory observation has identified eight different...
View ArticleA Two-Factor Authentication System using Mobile Phones
The use of untrusted computers to access critical information introduces one of the main challenges in protecting the security of users’ confidential information. Providing an easy method of accessing...
View ArticleSQLPrevent: Effective Dynamic Detection and Prevention of SQL Injection...
This paper presents an effective approach for detecting and preventing known as well as novel SQL injection attacks. Unlike existing approaches, ours (1) is resistant to evasion techniques, such as...
View ArticleHOT Admin Research Project: Overview and Results to Date
Security of information technology (IT) has become a critical issue for organizations as they must protect their information assets from unauthorized access and quickly resume business activities after...
View ArticleA Broad Empirical Study of IT Security Practioners
Security of information technology (IT) has become a critical issue for organizations as they must protect their information assets from unauthorized access and quickly resume business activities after...
View ArticleAuthorization Recycling in RBAC Systems
As distributed applications increase in size and complexity, traditional authorization mechanisms based on a single policy decision point are increasingly fragile because this decision point represents...
View ArticleIdentifying Differences Between Security and Other IT Professionals: a...
We report factors differentiating security and other IT responsibilities. Our findings are based on a qualitative analysis of data from 27 interviews across 11 distinct organizations. The results show...
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