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The usability of security - revisited
Furnell SM
Computer Fraud & Security, ISSN: 1361-3723, September 2016, pp5-11, 2016

One of the long-standing challenges around security technology has been to ensure it is provided in a manner that is usable for the target audience. Usability in this context encompasses several underlying factors, including the need to be understandable for users and to avoid being unnecessarily intrusive or introduce undue performance overheads, while at the same time enabling the desired security tasks to be performed effectively.

Furnell SM