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000000207 037__ $$aLERSSE-PRESENTATION-2009-078
000000207 041__ $$aeng
000000207 100__ $$aFahimeh Raja
000000207 245__ $$aRevealing Hidden Context: Improving Users' Mental Models of Personal Firewalls
000000207 260__ $$c2009-07-28
000000207 300__ $$a53
000000207 520__ $$aWindows Vista’s personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, our study of this interface revealed that concealing the impact of network context on the security state of the firewall results in mental models that are unclear about the protection provided by the firewall resulting in an inaccurate understanding of the firewall configuration. We developed a prototype to support more contextually complete mental models through inclusion of network context information. Results from our initial evaluation of the prototype support our approach of improving user understanding of underlying system states by revealing hidden context, while considering the tension between complexity of the interface and security of the system.
000000207 6531_ $$aUsable security
000000207 6531_ $$afirewall
000000207 6531_ $$aconfiguration
000000207 6531_ $$amental model 
000000207 6531_ $$aissnet 
000000207 700__ $$aKirstie Hawkey
000000207 700__ $$aKonstantin Beznosov
000000207 8560_ $$ffahimehr@ece.ubc.ca
000000207 8564_ $$uhttp://lersse-dl.ece.ubc.ca/record/207/files/207.pdf$$yTransfer from CDS 0.99.7
000000207 909C4 $$pTalk given at Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), July 2009, at Google in Mountain View, California, US.
000000207 980__ $$aPRESENTATION