Quality and Inequity in Digital Security Education

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dc.contributor.advisorMazurek, Michelle Len_US
dc.contributor.authorRedmiles, Elissa Men_US
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-01T06:35:56Z
dc.date.available2020-02-01T06:35:56Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractFew users have a formal, authoritative introduction to digital security. Rather, digital security skills are often learned haphazardly, as users filter through an overwhelming quantity of security education from a multitude of sources, hoping they're implementing the right set of behaviors that will keep them safe. In this thesis, I use computational, interview, and survey methods to investigate how users learn digital security behaviors, how security education impacts security outcomes, and how inequity in security education can create a digital divide. As a first step toward remedying this divide, I conduct a large-scale measurement of the quality of the digital security education content (i.e., security advice) that is available to users through one of their most cited sources of education: the Internet. The results of this evaluation suggest a security education ecosystem in crisis: security experts are unable or unwilling to narrow down which behaviors are most important for users' security, leaving end-users -- especially those with the least resources -- to attempt to implement the hundreds of security behaviors advised by educational materials.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/izgo-pgdo
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/25404
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledComputer scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCommunicationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcomputer securityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddigital divideen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddigital securityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollededucationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinequityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledprivacyen_US
dc.titleQuality and Inequity in Digital Security Educationen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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