Title :
Study of internet security threats among home users
Author :
Rao, Umesh Hodeghatta ; Pati, Bishwa Prakash
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Manage., Bhubaneswar, India
Abstract :
Recent news on financial losses due to lack of information security has created certain awareness of its importance among computer users. This paper presents the results arrived from an initial response of 340 questionnaires distributed to the home users, who are not computer savvy. The survey was conducted to assess the awareness of computer and internet security during their day-to-day usage of internet. Results show that a user´s awareness of security plays a significant role. This paper also proposes developing a software solution to protect home users´ computer system based on the internet usage and behavioral pattern.
Keywords :
Internet; computer network security; computer viruses; home networks; Internet security awareness; Internet security threats; Internet usage; behavioral pattern; computer security awareness; computer security policies violation; computer users; financial losses; home user network; home users computer system; information confidentiality loss; information integrity disruption; information security; system availability denial; system availability disruption; system integrity disruption; user security awareness; Computer security; Computers; Information security; Internet; Operating systems; Ant-virus; Hacker; Home users´ security; cyber security; internet security;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sao Carlos
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4793-8
DOI :
10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412405
