Who creates strong passwords when nudging fails

The use of strong passwords is viewed as a recommended cybersecurity practice, as the hacking of weak passwords led to major cybersecurity breaches. The present research investigated whether nudging with messages based on participants’ self-schemas could lead them to create stronger passwords. We mo...

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Autores principales:	Shelia M. Kennison, Ian T. Jones, Victoria H. Spooner, D. Eric Chan-Tin
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Cybersecurity Secure passwords Personality traits Nudging Risk-taking Self-schemas Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2d88409e66eb4e13a079c495bfcd8d572021-12-01T05:04:42ZWho creates strong passwords when nudging fails2451-958810.1016/j.chbr.2021.100132https://doaj.org/article/2d88409e66eb4e13a079c495bfcd8d572021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958821000804https://doaj.org/toc/2451-9588The use of strong passwords is viewed as a recommended cybersecurity practice, as the hacking of weak passwords led to major cybersecurity breaches. The present research investigated whether nudging with messages based on participants’ self-schemas could lead them to create stronger passwords. We modeled our study on prior health-related research demonstrating positive results using messages based on self-schema categories (i.e., True Colors categories -compassionate, loyal, intellectual, and adventurous). We carried out an online study, one with 256 (185 women, 66 men, 5 other) undergraduates and one with 424 (240 men, 179 women, 5 other) Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers, in which we randomly assigned participants to receive messages that matched or mismatched their self-schema. We also investigated whether differences across the Big Five personality traits, secure password knowledge, attitudes and behavior, need for cognition, and general risk-taking predicted the strength of passwords that participants created during the study. Multiple individual difference variables predicted password strength (i.e., conscientiousness, emotional stability, need for cognition, self-reported secure password knowledge, attitude, and behavior, and general risk-taking). MTurk workers had higher levels of cybersecurity knowledge and created stronger passwords than college students. The nudging messages did not lead to stronger passwords. Implications for strategies to increase the use of secure passwords are discussed.Shelia M. KennisonIan T. JonesVictoria H. SpoonerD. Eric Chan-TinElsevierarticleCybersecuritySecure passwordsPersonality traitsNudgingRisk-takingSelf-schemasElectronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95PsychologyBF1-990ENComputers in Human Behavior Reports, Vol 4, Iss , Pp 100132- (2021)
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topic	Cybersecurity Secure passwords Personality traits Nudging Risk-taking Self-schemas Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
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description	The use of strong passwords is viewed as a recommended cybersecurity practice, as the hacking of weak passwords led to major cybersecurity breaches. The present research investigated whether nudging with messages based on participants’ self-schemas could lead them to create stronger passwords. We modeled our study on prior health-related research demonstrating positive results using messages based on self-schema categories (i.e., True Colors categories -compassionate, loyal, intellectual, and adventurous). We carried out an online study, one with 256 (185 women, 66 men, 5 other) undergraduates and one with 424 (240 men, 179 women, 5 other) Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers, in which we randomly assigned participants to receive messages that matched or mismatched their self-schema. We also investigated whether differences across the Big Five personality traits, secure password knowledge, attitudes and behavior, need for cognition, and general risk-taking predicted the strength of passwords that participants created during the study. Multiple individual difference variables predicted password strength (i.e., conscientiousness, emotional stability, need for cognition, self-reported secure password knowledge, attitude, and behavior, and general risk-taking). MTurk workers had higher levels of cybersecurity knowledge and created stronger passwords than college students. The nudging messages did not lead to stronger passwords. Implications for strategies to increase the use of secure passwords are discussed.
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