Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools

Bibliographic Information
David Botta, Rodrigo Werlinger, André Gagné, Konstantin Beznosov, Lee Iverson, Sidney Fels and Brian Fisher "Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools," presented at Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ACM, July 19, 2007, pp.22.

Abstract

We report preliminary results of our ongoing field study of IT professionals who are involved in security management. We interviewed a dozen practitioners from five organizations to understand their workplace and tools. We analyzed the interviews using a variation of Grounded Theory and predesigned themes. Our results suggest that the job of IT security management is distributed across multiple employees, often a

Additional Information
Material Type:	Talk/Presentation
Collection:	Usable Security
This record was updated:	20 July 2007

Keywords
HOT Admin, Security Management, Ethnography, Security Tasks, Security Tools, Usable Security, Collaboration

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