TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding users' requirements for data protection in smartphones
AU - Muslukhov, Ildar
AU - Boshmaf, Yazan
AU - Kuo, Cynthia
AU - Lester, Jonathan
AU - Beznosov, Konstantin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Securing smartphones' data is a new and growing concern, especially when this data represents valuable or sensitive information. Even though there are many data protection solutions for smartphones, there are no studies that investigate users' requirements for such solutions. In this paper, we approach smartphones' data protection problem in a user-centric way, and analyze the requirements of data protection systems from users' perspectives. We elicit the data types that users desire to protect, investigate current users' practices in protecting such data, and show how security requirements vary for different data types. We report the results of an exploratory user study, where we interviewed 22 participants. Overall, we found that users would like to secure their smartphone data, but find it inconvenient to do so in practice using solutions available today.
AB - Securing smartphones' data is a new and growing concern, especially when this data represents valuable or sensitive information. Even though there are many data protection solutions for smartphones, there are no studies that investigate users' requirements for such solutions. In this paper, we approach smartphones' data protection problem in a user-centric way, and analyze the requirements of data protection systems from users' perspectives. We elicit the data types that users desire to protect, investigate current users' practices in protecting such data, and show how security requirements vary for different data types. We report the results of an exploratory user study, where we interviewed 22 participants. Overall, we found that users would like to secure their smartphone data, but find it inconvenient to do so in practice using solutions available today.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84869015230
U2 - 10.1109/ICDEW.2012.83
DO - 10.1109/ICDEW.2012.83
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869015230
SN - 9780769547480
T3 - Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2012
SP - 228
EP - 235
BT - Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2012
Y2 - 1 April 2012 through 5 April 2012
ER -