Scaling the security wall: Developing a security behavior intentions scale (SeBIS)

Serge Egelman; Eyal Peer

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702249

Scaling the security wall: Developing a security behavior intentions scale (SeBIS)

Serge Egelman
, Eyal Peer

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

238 Scopus citations

Abstract

Despite the plethora of security advice and online education materials offered to end-users, there exists no standard measurement tool for end-user security behaviors. We present the creation of such a tool. We surveyed the most common computer security advice that experts offer to end-users in order to construct a set of Likert scale questions to probe the extent to which respondents claim to follow this advice. Using these questions, we iteratively surveyed a pool of 3,619 computer users to refine our question set such that each question was applicable to a large percentage of the population, exhibited adequate variance between respondents, and had high reliability (i.e., desirable psychometric properties). After performing both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, we identified a 16-item scale consisting of four sub-scales that measures attitudes towards choosing passwords, device securement, staying up-to-date, and proactive awareness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2873-2882
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702249
State	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2015-April

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15

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Keywords

Individual differences
Psychometrics
Security behavior

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Egelman, S., & Peer, E. (2015). Scaling the security wall: Developing a security behavior intentions scale (SeBIS). In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 2873-2882). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702249

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