Scare Tactics - A viable weapon in the security war?

Authors

Steven Furnell, Edith Cowan University
Maria Papadaki
Kerry-Lynn Thomson

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Elsevier Advanced Technology

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

School of Computer and Security Science / Centre for Security Research

RAS ID

8715

Comments

Furnell, S., Papadaki, M., & Thomson, K. L. (2009). Scare tactics–A viable weapon in the security war? Computer Fraud & Security, 2009(12), 6-10. Available here

Abstract

End users are frequently criticised as the sources of bad security practice, and it is suggested they might take the issue more seriously if they experienced a breach. An option for enabling this would be for security administrators to deliberately create conditions and situations that provide first-hand demonstrations to targeted users. Such approaches are referred to as scare tactics.

DOI

10.1016/S1361-3723(09)70151-4