A web browser plugin for users’ security awareness
A web browser plugin for users’ security awareness
Browsing online continues to pose a risk to the users’ privacy and security. There is a plethora of existing tools and solutions that aim at ensuring safe and private browsing but they are not used by the majority of the users due to the lack of ease of use or because they are too restrictive. In this work, we present a plugin for Google Chrome that aims to increase the users’ security awareness regarding the visited websites. We aim to provide the user with simple and understandable information about the security of the visited website. We evaluated our tool through a usability analysis and compared it with existing well-known solutions. Our study showed that our plugin ranking was high in the ease of use, and in the middle range for clarity, information provided, and overall satisfaction. Overall, our study showed that the users would like to use a tool that has ease of use but that also provides some simple security information about the visited website.
google chrome, plugin, security awareness, usability study
Association for Computing Machinery
Hoad, Thomas
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Karafili, Erisa
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30 July 2024
Hoad, Thomas
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Karafili, Erisa
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Hoad, Thomas and Karafili, Erisa
(2024)
A web browser plugin for users’ security awareness.
In ARES '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security.
Association for Computing Machinery.
7 pp
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(doi:10.1145/3664476.3670439).
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Abstract
Browsing online continues to pose a risk to the users’ privacy and security. There is a plethora of existing tools and solutions that aim at ensuring safe and private browsing but they are not used by the majority of the users due to the lack of ease of use or because they are too restrictive. In this work, we present a plugin for Google Chrome that aims to increase the users’ security awareness regarding the visited websites. We aim to provide the user with simple and understandable information about the security of the visited website. We evaluated our tool through a usability analysis and compared it with existing well-known solutions. Our study showed that our plugin ranking was high in the ease of use, and in the middle range for clarity, information provided, and overall satisfaction. Overall, our study showed that the users would like to use a tool that has ease of use but that also provides some simple security information about the visited website.
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 May 2024
Published date: 30 July 2024
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The International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security: 4th International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security, Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2024-07-30 - 2024-08-02
Keywords:
google chrome, plugin, security awareness, usability study
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Local EPrints ID: 492786
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/492786
PURE UUID: 9402f4b8-48f9-4adb-8165-6caa29d007d3
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Thomas Hoad
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Erisa Karafili
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