“Security begins at home”: Determinants of home computer and mobile device security behavior

Mobile Home Security with GPRS

This paper presents research-in-progress on the development of a home security system for use on mobile devices. Mobile Home Security (MHS) is a system that uses the wireless high-speed technology GPRS. An effective system requires the delivery of good quality images and video to the mobile device. Existing wireless networks have low bandwidth and hence are not capable of providing this service...

Mental Models of Home Computer Security

Users of home computer systems are becoming increasingly aware of the need for computer and information security systems. The market for security software for home users is growing rapidly, and includes anti-virus software, anti-spyware software, personal firewall software, personal intrusion detection / prevention systems, computer login / password / fingerprint systems, and intrusion recovery...

Incentive Design for Home Computer Security

People are the weakest link in security (Anderson, 1993). People write passwords on sticky notes on the screen. People don’t patch their home systems and become botnet zombies. People choose whether to label a patch critical or just recommended. Our motivating insight is that these actions generally reflect motivated behavior in response to the configuration of incentives confronting individual...

Commentary: Charity begins at home.

Price transparency begins at home.

W H E N IT COMES to reforming their price structure, it is to be hoped that hospitals will do the right thing for the wrong reason. They certainly show no signs of doing the right thing for the right reason. The right thing is to develop a coherent strategy for setting a structure of prices that combines an external, market-facing perspective on the value of particular services to particular cu...