Usable Security

O’Reilly has released Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use, a collection of 34 essays on security and usability edited by Lorrie Cranor and Simson Garfinkel.  The essays are grouped into six sections:

• Realigning Security and Usability
• Authentication Mechanisms
• Secure Systems
• Privacy and Anonymity Systems
• Commercializing Usability
• The Classics

I wrote Chapter 13, the first chapter of the “Secure Systems” section, which presents my guidelines for secure interaction design with worked examples and illustrations.

It’s high time we had a comprehensive reference on security and usability.  I’m proud and honoured to have participated in its creation.  Check out the book.  There’s a lot of great stuff in there.

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