Barry is not the weakest link: eliciting secure system requirements with personas.

Abstract

Building secure and usable systems means specifying systems for the people using it and the tasks they carry out, rather than vice-versa. User-centred design approaches encourage an early focus on users and their contexts of use, but these need to be integrated with approaches for engineering secure systems. This paper describes how personas can augment a process for eliciting and specifying requirements for secure and usable systems. Our results suggest that personas increase stakeholder empathy towards users represented by personas, and the empirical data used to build personas can also be used to obtain a better understanding of prospective attackers and their motivations.

Citation

FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2010. Barry is not the weakest link: eliciting secure system requirements with personas. In Proceedings of the 24th International BCS human computer interaction conference (HCI 2010): games are a serious business, 6-10 September 2010, Dundee, UK. Swindon: BCS, pages 124-132. Hosted on ScienceOpen [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2010.17

• Conference Name: 24th International BCS human computer interaction conference (HCI 2010): games are a serious business
• Conference Location: Dundee, UK
• Start Date: Sep 6, 2010
• End Date: Sep 10, 2010
• Acceptance Date: Sep 6, 2010
• Online Publication Date: Sep 30, 2010
• Publication Date: Sep 30, 2010
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 2, 2021
• Publisher: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
• Pages: 124-132
• Series Title: Electronic workshops in computing
• Series ISSN: 1477-9358
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2010.17
• Keywords: Human-computer interaction (HCI); Systems security; User-centred design; Software engineering
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1427790