A model for evaluating the security and usability of e-banking platforms

Alarifi, Abdulrahman; Alsaleh, Mansour; Alomar, Noura

doi:10.1007/s00607-017-0546-9

Cited by 28 publications

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“…For perceptions related to smartphone locking mechanisms, previous studies agree that most smartphone users perceive existing authentication schemes as often being inconvenient [9, 39, 42–44]. Harbach et al studied the unlocking practices of 260 smartphone users and found that users perceived unlocking their devices as unnecessary and time consuming in more than 24% of the cases [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

Smartphone users: Understanding how security mechanisms are perceived and new persuasive methods

2017

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Protecting smartphones against security threats is a multidimensional problem involving human and technological factors. This study investigates how smartphone users’ security- and privacy-related decisions are influenced by their attitudes, perceptions, and understanding of various security threats. In this work, we seek to provide quantified insights into smartphone users’ behavior toward multiple key security features including locking mechanisms, application repositories, mobile instant messaging, and smartphone location services. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that reveals often unforeseen correlations and dependencies between various privacy- and security-related behaviors. Our work also provides evidence that making correct security decisions might not necessarily correlate with individuals’ awareness of the consequences of security threats. By comparing participants’ behavior and their motives for adopting or ignoring certain security practices, we suggest implementing additional persuasive approaches that focus on addressing social and technological aspects of the problem. On the basis of our findings and the results presented in the literature, we identify the factors that might influence smartphone users’ security behaviors. We then use our understanding of what might drive and influence significant behavioral changes to propose several platform design modifications that we believe could improve the security levels of smartphones.

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Smartphone users: Understanding how security mechanisms are perceived and new persuasive methods

2017

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“…Security estimation plays a key role in improving the quality of software. Durability plays a key role in enhancing the security life span (Alarifi, Alsaleh & Alomar, 2017). To improve the security life span of software, security durability assessment is essential which may be helpful for security policy, goals, etc., and user's satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This research paper addressed the importance of understanding software maintainability, gave a framework and some of the best ways to measure maintainability. In the same year, Alarifi, Alsaleh & Alomar (2017) proposed a structured inspection model for thoroughly evaluating the usability and security of internal and external e-banking assets. The authors have also demonstrated the insufficiency of existing security-usability models and have also applied their proposed framework to evaluate five major banks.…”

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Security durability assessment through fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Agrawal

Zarour

Alenezi

et al. 2019

PeerJ Computer Science

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Background: Security is an integral aspect of the development of quality software. Furthermore, security durability is even more imperative and in persistent demand due to high investment in recent years. To achieve the desired target of efficacious and viable durability of security services, there needs to be nodal focus on durability along with security. Unfortunately, the highly secure design of software becomes worthless because the durability of security services is not as it should be. Methods: Security durability attributes have their own impact while integrating security with durability and assessment of security durability plays a crucial role during software development. Within this context, this paper estimates the security durability of the two alternatives versions of a locally developed software called version 1 and version 2. To assess the security durability, authors are using the hybrid fuzzy analytic hierarchy process decision analysis approach. Results: The impact of the security durability on other attributes has been evaluated quantitatively. The result obtained contains the assessment of security durability. The study posits conclusions which are based on this result and are useful for practitioners to assess and improve the security life span of software services.

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“…A number of researchers have focused on identifying the root causes of web vulnerabilities and proposed solutions to mitigate the effects of web security attacks [63][64][65][66]. For instance, as an attempt to explore the correlations between security vulnerabilities and software faults, Fonseca and Vieira analyzed a large collection of security patches and found that the majority of SQL injection and XSS attacks were not caused by software bugs [63].…”

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Performance-Based Comparative Assessment of Open Source Web Vulnerability Scanners

Alsaleh

Alomar

Alshreef

et al. 2017

Security and Communication Networks

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The widespread adoption of web vulnerability scanners and the differences in the functionality provided by these tool-based vulnerability detection approaches increase the demand for testing their detection effectiveness. Despite the advantages of dynamic testing approaches, the literature lacks studies that systematically evaluate the performance of open source web vulnerability scanners. The main objectives of this study are to assess the performance of open source scanners from multiple perspectives and to examine their detection capability. This paper presents the results of a comparative evaluation of the security features as well as the performance of four web vulnerability detection tools. We followed this comparative assessment with a case study in which we evaluate the level of agreement between the results reported by two open source web vulnerability scanners. Given that the results of our comparative evaluation did not show significant performance differences among the scanners while the results of the conducted case study revealed high level of disagreement between the reports generated by different scanners, we conclude that the inconsistencies between the reports generated by different scanners might not necessarily correlate with their performance properties. We also present some recommendations for helping developers of web vulnerabilities scanners to improve their tools' capabilities.

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A model for evaluating the security and usability of e-banking platforms

Cited by 28 publications

References 42 publications

Smartphone users: Understanding how security mechanisms are perceived and new persuasive methods

Smartphone users: Understanding how security mechanisms are perceived and new persuasive methods

Security durability assessment through fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Performance-Based Comparative Assessment of Open Source Web Vulnerability Scanners

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