TY - GEN
T1 - Security but not for security's sake
T2 - 42nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops, ICSEW 2020
AU - Rauf, Irum
AU - Van Der Linden, DIrk
AU - Levine, Mark
AU - Towse, John
AU - Nuseibeh, Bashar
AU - Rashid, Awais
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/6/27
Y1 - 2020/6/27
N2 - We explore a dataset of app developer reasoning to better understand the reasons that may inadvertently promote or demote app developers' prioritization of security. We identify a number of reasons: caring vs. fear of users, the impact of norms, and notions of 'otherness' and 'self' in terms of belonging to groups. Based on our preliminary findings, we propose an interdisciplinary research agenda to explore the impact of social identity (a psychological theory) on developers' security rationales, and how this could be leveraged to guide developers towards making more secure choices.
AB - We explore a dataset of app developer reasoning to better understand the reasons that may inadvertently promote or demote app developers' prioritization of security. We identify a number of reasons: caring vs. fear of users, the impact of norms, and notions of 'otherness' and 'self' in terms of belonging to groups. Based on our preliminary findings, we propose an interdisciplinary research agenda to explore the impact of social identity (a psychological theory) on developers' security rationales, and how this could be leveraged to guide developers towards making more secure choices.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85093068940
U2 - 10.1145/3387940.3392230
DO - 10.1145/3387940.3392230
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85093068940
T3 - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops, ICSEW 2020
SP - 141
EP - 144
BT - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops, ICSEW 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 27 June 2020 through 19 July 2020
ER -