Beliefs about Cybersecurity Rules and Passwords.pdf

POSTER: Beliefs about Cybersecurity Rules and Passwords

PRESENTER: Ross Koppel, PhD, FACMI, University of Pennsylvania

ABSTRACT:
This poster covers recent efforts toward understanding general users' and security experts' perceptions regarding password rules and passwords. Some results from a preliminary survey administered to general users and cybersecurity experts are provided. Future work pertaining to both this survey and other data gathering experiments that deal with humans and security are discussed.

CO-PRESENTER(S): 
Sean Smith, Jim Blythe

KEYWORDS: 
cybersecurity rules, passwords, perceptions

PRESENTER BIO:
Professor Koppel is a leading scholar of healthcare IT, and of the interactions of people, computers and workplaces. His articles in JAMA, JAMIA, Annals of Internal Medicine, NEJM, Health Affairs, Journal of Patient Safety, the Journal of Clinical Care, Journal of Managed Care, Chest, and AHRQ-M&Ms, et cetera are considered seminal works. Professor Koppel is on the faculty of the Sociology Department and of the Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania. Koppel is also a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute at Penn's Wharton School. In addition, Koppel is a co-investigator of Penn's National Science Foundation Project on Safe Cyber Communication and Smart Alerts.