NDLI: User Interface Harmonization for IT Security Management: User-Centered Design in the PoSecCo Project

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gallego-Nicasio Crespo, B.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Res. & Innovation, Atos, Madrid, Spain (Gallego-Nicasio Crespo, B.)
Abstract	Quoting the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "the configuration of an information system and its components has a direct impact on the security posture of the system. [..] How those configurations are established and maintained requires a disciplined approach for providing adequate security" [1]. However, fitting the functional user needs is only one product success factor. In order to influence the acceptance of a software system by its target group of users, some factors such as the complexity of the system and its ease of use are also critical. The design approach followed by a user-centered engineering process focuses on the solution as a whole rather than on single components of the system, and on the user interface robustness rather than on system robustness. In this paper, we describe how usability and quality in use concepts, as defined by the standard ISO/IEC PDTR 9126-2/3/4 (Software Quality Metrics) [2], have been introduced in the design phases of the PoSecCo prototype. This paper summarizes the results of the analysis conducted in the PoSecCo project (www.posecco.eu), to group the six different organizational user roles of the project's integrated prototype (auditors and service provider's employees) into three main interface user group profiles: designers group, analytical group and consumers group. These three user group profiles define similar characteristics and requirements for what concern the usage of a graphical interface: visual attractiveness, general interaction with the functionalities offered and with the data managed by the system, reducing the effort and simplifying the subsequent design and implementation phases. The requirements associated to the user group profiles, as well as the task descriptions and information architecture, have been taken into account during the selection of the suitable technologies to implement the PoSecCo user interface, and in the development phases, in order to provide a harmonized and usable user interface for IT auditors and professionals of the security policy and configuration management areas.
Starting Page	829
Ending Page	835
File Size	179505
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550084
DOI	10.1109/ARES.2013.111
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-02
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Context ISO standards System design user interfaces Security security policy management IT audit usability Prototypes compliance User interfaces quality in use Usability user centered design Business
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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