Survey

Personal list of survey scales useful in Usable Security research. The list is not comprehensive and instead represents scales I have been exposed to or seen presented. General USEC scales security and privacy attitudes, opinions, awareness, and behavior self-report

While installing patches (updates) quickly is important for security, many system administrators do not have access to key resources like dedicated testing environments to ensure that installed patches will be stable and not disrupt their organization’s work.

Reliably recruiting participants with programming skills is an ongoing challenge for empirical studies involving software development technologies, often leading to the use of crowdsourcing platforms and computer science (CS) students. In this work, we use five existing survey instruments to explore the programming skills, privacy and security attitudes, and secure development self-efficacy of participants from a CS student mailing list and four crowdsourcing platforms (Appen, Clickworker, MTurk, and Prolific).

Software developers are key players in the security ecosystem as they produce code that runs on millions of devices. Yet we continue to …