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The One-Eyed Leading the Blind: Understanding Differences Between IT Professionals and Non-IT Staff When Creating and Managing Passwords

Martin J. Butler
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Passwords remains the standard mechanism by which organisations protect their data from unauthorised entities accessing, changing or misusing their information. Organisations go to great lengths to educate their workers on the importance of creating and maintaining secure passwords.Extensive research has been conducted on how users create and manage their passwords. To date, there is limited insight on how the behaviour of IT workers may differ from that of non-IT workers. It is generally assumed that IT workers have a greater understanding of what a secure password entails and how insecure password behaviour may put an organisation’s resources at risk by the nature of their roles. Consequently, they are expected to have a positive influence on non-IT workers’ password behaviour.This research sets out to test this assumption. The findings suggest significant differences between the password practices applied when IT and non-IT workers create and manage their passwords. However, poor security behaviour by both IT and non-IT workers was evident.
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hal-04041070 , version 1 (22-03-2023)

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Paul Brockbanks, Martin J. Butler. The One-Eyed Leading the Blind: Understanding Differences Between IT Professionals and Non-IT Staff When Creating and Managing Passwords. 15th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (HAISA), Jul 2021, Virtual, United Kingdom. pp.211-222, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-81111-2_18⟩. ⟨hal-04041070⟩
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