Understanding User Behavior towards Passwords through Acceptance and Use Modelling

Computer security is a major issue facing the world we inhabit. Computer systems in a multitude of institutions and organizations hold our personal information. Furthermore, we rely on the safe working of computer systems to not only protect that data, but allow us to take advantage of the benefits technology has to offer. Various kinds of security technology protect these systems. However, the development of security technology has not kept pace with suggested usability guidelines (Nielson, 1990). It has been shown that despite all of the advances in computer security technolABSTRACT