Development of Usable Security Heuristics for Fintech

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Author(s): Stephen Ambore , Huseyin Dogan , Edward Apeh

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Conference name: 34th British HCI Conference (HCI2021)

Conference theme: Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally

Conference date: 20th - 21st July 2021

Keywords: Usable Security, Fintech, Heuristics, Cybersecurity, Usability

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[1] H. Abdi and L.J. Williams (2010). Principal component analysis. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: computational statistics, 2(4), pp.433-459.

[2] L. Abdillah (2019, December). An Overview of Indonesian Fintech Application. In The First International Conference on Communication, Information Technology and Youth Study (ICITYS2019), Bayview Hotel Melaka, Melaka (Malacca), Malaysia.

[3] A. Alarifi, M. Alsaleh, & N. Alomar (2017). A model for evaluating the security and usability of e-banking platforms. Computing, 99(5), 519-535.

[4] D. Asli, L. Klapper, D. Singer, S. Ansar and J Hess, (2018), The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1259-0. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.

[5] Android, (2018). Android user interface development beginners guide, 2018. http://index-of.es/Android/Android.User.Interface.Development.Beginner.Guide.pdf. (Retrieved 22nd March 2021)

[6] Apple, (2018). Human Interface guidelines. https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/themes/, (Retrieved 22nd March 2021)

[7] W. Bai, D. Kim, M. Namara, Y. Qian, P. G. Kelley, & M. L. Mazurek (2017). Balancing security and usability in encrypted email. IEEE Internet Computing, 21(3), 30-38.

[8] A. Borrett (2021). Techmonitor, Covid-19 has increased cybersecurity risk to the fintech ecosystem, https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-risk-fintech-ecosystem (Retrieved 26th April, 2021)

[9] J. Brooke (1996). others,“SUS-A quick and dirty usability scale,” Usability Eval. Ind, 189, 4-7.

[10] L. F. Cranor, & N. Buchler (2014). Better together: Usability and Security go hand in hand. IEEE Security & Privacy, 12(6), 89-93.

[11] Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA), (2020) FinTech Landscape and Impact Assessment Study

[12] S. Eskandari, J. Clark, D. Barrera, & E. Stobert (2018). A first look at the usability of bitcoin key management. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04351.

[13] S. Faily, & C. Iacob (2017, September). Design as code: Facilitating collaboration between Usability and Security engineers using cairis. In 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) (pp. 76-82). IEEE.

[14] A. Ferreira, C. Rusu, & S. Roncagliolo (2009). Usability and Security patterns. In 2009 Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (pp. 301-305). IEEE.

[15] D. Feth, & S. Polst (2019). Heuristics and models for evaluating the usability of security measures. In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019 (pp. 275-285).

[16] F. Gaehtgens, A. Allan, M. Zlotogorski, F. Buytendijk (2017). Definition: Digital Trust. Gartner research Published: 24 May 2017 ID: G00329409.

[17] M. Glenny, (2021). Financial Times, Pandemic accelerates growth in cybercrime. https://www.ft.com/content/49b81b4e-367a-4be1-b7d6166230abc398?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a#myft:notification:instant-email:content (Retrieved 29th April, 2021)

[18] P. L. Gorski, & L. L. Iacono (2016). Towards the Usability Evaluation of Security APIs. In HAISA (pp. 252-265).

[19] M. Green, & M. Smith (2016). Developers are not the enemy!: The need for usable security apis. IEEE Security & Privacy, 14(5), 40-46.

[20] S. Hafenbrädl, D. Waeger, J. N. Marewski, & G. Gigerenzer (2016). Applied decision making with fast-and-frugal heuristics. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(2), 215-231.

[21] R. Harrison, D. Flood, & D. Duce (2013). Usability of mobile applications: literature review and rationale for a new usability model. Journal of Interaction Science, 1(1), 1-16.

[22] M High (2021). Monzo, Revolut and more - the rise of UK fintechs, https://www.fintechmagazine.com/venture-capital/monzo-revolut-and-more-rise-uk-fintechs (retrieved 8th May, 2021)

[23] H. J. Hof (2015). User-centric IT security-how to design usable security mechanisms. arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07167.

[24] H. J. Hof (2015). Towards enhanced usability of it security mechanisms-how to design usable it security mechanisms using the example of email encryption. arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06987.

[25] C. Jiménez, C. Rusu, S. Roncagliolo, R. Inostroza, & V. Rusu (2012). Evaluating a methodology to establish usability heuristics. In 2012 31st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (pp. 51-59). IEEE.

[26] R. Kainda, I. Flechais, & A. W. Roscoe (2010, February). Security and usability: Analysis and evaluation. In 2010 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (pp. 275-282). IEEE.

[27] H. Khan, U. Hengartner, & D. Vogel (2015). Usability and Security perceptions of implicit authentication: convenient, secure, sometimes annoying. In Eleventh Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security ({SOUPS} 2015) (pp. 225-239).

[28] V Mani, (2019), Cybersecurity and Fintech at a Crossroads, ISACA Journal / Issues / 2019 / Volume 1

[29] W. Melicher, D. Kurilova, S. M. Segreti, P. Kalvani, R. Shay, B. Ur,and M. L. Mazurek (2016). Usability and Security of text passwords on mobile devices. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 527-539).

[30] J. Nielsen (1992). Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 373-380).

[31] N. Nurmuliani, D. Zowghi, & S. P. Williams (2004). Using card sorting technique to classify requirements change. In Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2004. (pp. 240-248). IEEE.

[32] J. R. Nurse, S. Creese, M. Goldsmith, & K. Lamberts (2011). Guidelines for usable cybersecurity: Past and present. In 2011 third international workshop on cyberspace safety and security (CSS) (pp. 21-26). IEEE.

[33] OWASP Mobile Top 10, (2016) https://owasp.org/www-project-mobile-top-10/ (Retrieved 7th May, 2021 )

[34] S. L. Pfleeger, M. A. Sasse, & A. Furnham (2014). From weakest link to security hero: Transforming staff security behavior. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 11(4), 489-510.

[35] D. Quiñones, & C. Rusu (2017). How to develop usability heuristics: A systematic literature review. Computer standards & interfaces, 53, 89-122.

[36] P. C. Realpe, C. A. Collazos, J. Hurtado, & A. Granollers (2016). A set of heuristics for usable security and user authentication. In Proceedings of the XVII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 1-8).

[37] S. Saksonova, and I. Kuzmina-Merlino (2017). Fintech as financial innovation–The possibilities and problems of implementation.

[38] M. A. Sasse, S. Brostoff, & D. Weirich (2001). Transforming the ‘weakest link’—a human/computer interaction approach to usable and effective security. BT technology journal, 19(3), 122-131.

[39] G. Schryen, G. Wagner, & A. Schlegel (2016). Development of two novel face-recognition CAPTCHAs: a security and usability study. Computers & Security, 60, 95-116.

[40] A. Seffah, N. Kececi, & M. Donyaee (2001). QUIM: a framework for quantifying usability metrics in software quality models. In Proceedings Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (pp. 311-318). IEEE.

[41] M. Shetty, (2018), Banks warn of new mobile malware, 232 banking apps in danger. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/banks-warn-of-new-mobile-malware/articleshow/62436145.cms. (Retrieved May 12, 2018).

[42] A. Sivaji, A. Abdullah, & A. G. Downe (2011). Usability testing methodology: Effectiveness of heuristic evaluation in E-government website development. In 2011 Fifth Asia Modelling Symposium (pp. 68-72). IEEE.

[43] Usabilitest, (2018). https://www.usabilitest.com/. (Retrieved 31st August 2018)

[44] E. Uzun, N. Saxena, & A. Kumar (2011). Pairing devices for social interactions: a comparative usability evaluation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2315-2324).

[45] R. West, C. Mayhorn, J. Hardee, & J. Mendel (2009). The weakest link: A psychological perspective on why users make poor security decisions. In Social and Human elements of information security: Emerging Trends and countermeasures (pp. 43-60). IGI Global.

[46] C. Wijayarathna, & N. A. G. Arachchilage (2019). Why Johnny can’t develop a secure application? A usability analysis of Java Secure Socket Extension API. Computers & Security, 80, 54-73.

[47] A. Yeratziotis, D. Pottas, & D. Van Greunen (2012). A usable security heuristic evaluation for the online health social networking paradigm. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 28(10), 678-694.

[48] M. E. Zurko, & R. T. Simon (1996). User-centered security. In Proceedings of the 1996 workshop on New security paradigms (pp. 27-33).

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