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User Acceptance Identification of Restrictions Caused by Mobile Security Countermeasures

Authors:
Basel Hasan
Tariq Mahmoud
Jorge Marx Gómez
Reshmi Pramod
Joachim Kurzhöfer

Keywords: mobile enterprise applications, mobile devices, mobile security, user acceptance

Abstract:
The proliferation of mobile devices, especially smartphones and tablets, in people’s daily life has motivated the enterprises to embrace mobility as an inevitable success factor in their business. However, integrating mobile devices into enterprises brings new security risks and challenges. Hence, security countermeasures must be applied to mobile devices to secure corporate data and segregate them from private data. Such countermeasures can restrict the usage of mobile devices, and mobile users consequently have to accept the restrictions arising by applying such countermeasures. The user acceptance of these restrictions must be considered. This work derives a set of such restrictions that limit the usage of mobile devices. It also presents the results of a questionnaire that investigates the user acceptance rate of these restrictions. The results of this study might help enterprises in their decision-making process about selecting proper security countermeasures by keeping a considerable balance between security and usability.

Pages: 31 to 37

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: June 21, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3468

ISBN: 978-1-61208-417-6

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Dates: from June 21, 2015 to June 26, 2016