Information and Computer Security: Volume 25 Issue 4

A cyber-threat analytic model for autonomous detection of virtual property theft

Nicholas Patterson, Michael Hobbs, Tianqing Zhu

The purpose of this study is to provide a framework to detect and prevent virtual property theft in virtual world environments. The issue of virtual property theft is a serious…

State transgression on electronic expression: is it for real?

Argha Ray, Anjali Kaushik

Cyberspace is a virtual environment where instantaneous communications are initiated and consumed using computer networks without any natural or artificial boundaries. These…

Workarounds and trade-offs in information security – an exploratory study

Rogier Woltjer

The purpose of this paper is to investigate relationships between workarounds (solutions to handling trade-offs between competing or misaligned goals and gaps in policies and…

Deterrence and punishment experience impacts on ISP compliance attitudes

Salvatore Aurigemma, Thomas Mattson

The paper aims to examine the inconclusive impacts of sanction-related deterrence on employee information security policy (ISP) compliance from the extant literature. It proposes…

Human-centered authentication guidelines

Jeremiah D. Still, Ashley Cain, David Schuster

Despite the widespread use of authentication schemes and the rapid emergence of novel authentication schemes, a general set of domain-specific guidelines has not yet been…

On data leakage from non-production systems

Jacqueline Cope, Francois Siewe, Feng Chen, Leandros Maglaras, Helge Janicke

This study is an exploration of areas pertaining to the use of production data in non-production environments. During the software development life cycle, non-production…

A systematic approach to investigating how information security and privacy can be achieved in BYOD environments

Abubakar Garba Bello, David Murray, Jocelyn Armarego

This paper’s purpose is to provide a current best practice approach that can be used to identify and manage bring your own device (BYOD) security and privacy risks faced by…