Alromaih, S;
Flechais, I;
Chalhoub, G;
(2024)
Beyond the Office Walls: Understanding Security and Shadow Security Behaviours in a Remote Work Context.
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Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2024.
(pp. pp. 507-525).
USENIX: Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Abstract
Organisational security research has primarily focused on user security behaviour within workplace boundaries, examining behaviour that complies with security policies and behaviour that does not. Here, researchers identified shadow security behaviour: where security-conscious users apply their own security practices which are not in compliance with official security policy. Driven by the growth in remote work and the increasing diversity of remote working arrangements, our qualitative research study aims to investigate the nature of security behaviours within remote work settings. Using Grounded Theory, we interviewed 20 remote workers to explore security related practices within remote work. Our findings describe a model of personal security and how this interacts with an organisational security model in remote settings. We model how remote workers use an appraisal process to relate the personal and organisational security models, driving their security-related behaviours. Our model explains how different levels of alignment between the personal and organisational models can drive compliance, non-compliance, and shadow security behaviour in remote work settings. We discuss the implications of our findings for remote work security and highlight the importance of maintaining informal security communications for remote workers, homogenising security interactions, and adopting user experience design for remote work solutions.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Beyond the Office Walls: Understanding Security and Shadow Security Behaviours in a Remote Work Context |
| Event: | USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2024 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2024/presen... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198009 |
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