Cultural and Gender Differences in Password Behaviors

Petrie, Helen; Merdenyan, Burak

doi:10.1145/2971485.2971563

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“…Even if this is true, this may mean they are a multicultural sample, which we did not attempt to control for. Previous research has found cultural differences in password management behaviours [20], conducting the same study with different populations may reveal different results.…”

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Perceptions of Risk, Benefits and Likelihood of Undertaking Password Management Behaviours: Four Components

Merdenyan

Petrie

2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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Passwords remain the most common form of authentication in the digital world. People have increasing numbers of passwords, and research suggests that many people undertake risky password management behaviours such as reusing passwords, writing them down and sharing them with friends and colleagues. It is not clear whether people persist in these behaviours because they do not understand the risks involved or the benefits of the behavior outweigh the risk. An online survey was undertaken with 120 MTurk workers in which they rated the risks, benefits and likelihood of undertaking 15 password management behaviours. They also completed the Marlow-Crowne Social Desirability Scale to investigate whether their responses, particularly of the likelihood ratings, were affected by social desirability. An interesting pattern of responses was found with some groups of behaviours more affected by perceptions of the benefits and others equally affected by the perceptions of the risks and the benefits. These results have implications for how information about risky password behaviours in presented to users and general education about password security.

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Perceptions of Risk, Benefits and Likelihood of Undertaking Password Management Behaviours: Four Components

Merdenyan

Petrie

2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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“…Other limitations of the current study include the fact that respondents were from many different countries, with substantial numbers from the USA and India. Previous work has shown that there are complex cultural differences in attitudes to password management (Petrie and Merdenyan, 2016), although the countries studied in that study did not include either the USA or India. But there may be differences in the attitudes of respondents from these two countries which are obscuring effects in the current study.…”

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“…However, recalling the right password for a specific account is not easy. A recent study in password behaviours showed that on average British respondents manage 22.3 total systems requiring passwords (Petrie and Merdenyan, 2016).…”

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Perceptions of the risks of password related activities

Merdenyan¹,

Petrie²

2017

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Many studies have investigated people's risky password related activities such as writing down passwords, sharing them with other people and re-using them across accounts, but few studies have investigated people's perceptions of the risks of these activities. This paper reports on an online survey with 129 people rating the risks of 11 different password related activities in four domains (social networking, email, eBanking and eCommerce). There were fewer differences between the perceived riskiness of activities due to domain than expected, but differences between the activities and the numbers of respondents who said they would engage in the different activities. There were interesting patterns of differences in the ratings of the riskiness, severity of the consequences, usefulness and likelihood of encountering the different activities, which may help explain why people undertake risky password activities. Passwords, password management activities, risk perception.

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“…For any proposal aiming to advance authentication for AR & VR devices, investigating societal and cultural aspects in technology adoption is critical. Prior studies have shown that authentication behaviour, usage, and experience is influenced vastly by age [11], cultural differences [2], and geographical locations [42,45,51]. Riley et al investigated regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication in India, South Africa, and the United Kingdom [45].…”

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Towards Secure and Usable Authentication for Augmented and Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays

Duezguen¹,

Mayer²,

Das³

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Immersive technologies, including augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR) devices, have enhanced digital communication along with a considerable increase in digital threats. Thus, authentication becomes critical in AR & VR technology, particularly in shared spaces. In this paper, we propose applying the ZeTA protocol that allows secure authentication even in shared spaces for the AR & VR context. We explain how it can be used with the available interaction methods provided by Head-Mounted Displays. In future work, our research goal is to evaluate different designs of ZeTA (e.g., interaction modes) concerning their usability and users' risk perception regarding their security -while using a crosscultural approach. IntroductionNew-age technologies help to connect people despite geographical constraints. However, such technological evolution brings new risks. Augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR) are such technologies that have expanded considerably and are projected to reach $114 billion and $65 billion, respectively, by 2021 [44]. AR & VR systems like the Oculus and Google Glass increasingly promise to provide social activities like interactive gaming, virtual shopping, or attending virtual meetings [46]. Many of these activities happen in so-called shared spaces, i.e., places not strictly public, but where multiple people are present at the same time [22]. However, these technologies also introduce new security challenges in AR & VR [24], including authentication challenges. Nowadays, authentication on AR & VR systems is neglected or carried out on the smartphone or PC [6]. Yet, if authentication is required during a VR experience, e.g., paying for a product

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Cultural and Gender Differences in Password Behaviors

Cited by 12 publications

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Perceptions of Risk, Benefits and Likelihood of Undertaking Password Management Behaviours: Four Components

Perceptions of Risk, Benefits and Likelihood of Undertaking Password Management Behaviours: Four Components

Perceptions of the risks of password related activities

Towards Secure and Usable Authentication for Augmented and Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays

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