TY - GEN
T1 - A qualitative metrics vector for the awareness of smartphone security users
AU - Mylonas, Alexios
AU - Gritzalis, Dimitris
AU - Tsoumas, Bill
AU - Apostolopoulos, Theodore
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The proliferation of smartphones introduced new challenges in the users' security and privacy. Currently, the literature concentrates mainly on the 'nuts and bolts' of their security models. Not extensive work is available on the security awareness of smartphone users, even though their role in the ecosystem is important. This is so, as users' actions directly affect their security and privacy. This paper extends a previous work on the awareness of smartphone users who install apps from official repositories. More specifically, we explore if a security background affects the smartphone security awareness of the survey participants by splitting them in two groups, comprising of security savvy and non-security savvy users. The results of the statistical analysis indicate, inter alia, that the participants' security background has slight impact on their security awareness in the smartphone ecosystem.
AB - The proliferation of smartphones introduced new challenges in the users' security and privacy. Currently, the literature concentrates mainly on the 'nuts and bolts' of their security models. Not extensive work is available on the security awareness of smartphone users, even though their role in the ecosystem is important. This is so, as users' actions directly affect their security and privacy. This paper extends a previous work on the awareness of smartphone users who install apps from official repositories. More specifically, we explore if a security background affects the smartphone security awareness of the survey participants by splitting them in two groups, comprising of security savvy and non-security savvy users. The results of the statistical analysis indicate, inter alia, that the participants' security background has slight impact on their security awareness in the smartphone ecosystem.
KW - Awareness
KW - Security
KW - Smartphone
KW - User Survey
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84884475887&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40343-9_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40343-9_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84884475887
SN - 9783642403422
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 173
EP - 184
BT - Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business - 10th International Conference, TrustBus 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2013
Y2 - 28 August 2013 through 29 August 2013
ER -