Towards a Usable-Security Engineering Framework for Enhancing Software Development

Title: Towards a Usable-Security Engineering Framework for Enhancing Software Development Author: Yasser M. Hausawi Committee Chair: William H. Allen, Ph.D. Computer systems are fundamental tools for almost every single process in life. People from all over the globe use computer systems for an unlimited number of purposes. Consequently, a close relationship between people and computer systems exists. Current research investigates how people and such systems to interact with each other in a proper manner. The research work on this matter is being conducted in different directions; one direction is investigating people’s behaviors toward computer systems, such as the cognitive and mental state of humans when interacting with computer systems; another direction studies the computer system’s behaviors toward people, such as studying the systems’ quality attributes and enhancing them during the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC) phases; moreover, a third hybrid research area takes a bidirectional approach by examining both people and computer systems. Examples of this hybrid approach are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Human Computer Interaction and Security (HCI-SEC).