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Password Sharing and How to Reduce It

Ferreira, Ana and Correia, Ricardo and Chadwick, David W. and Santos, Henrique and Gomes, Rut and Reis, Diogo and Antunes, Luis (2010) Password Sharing and How to Reduce It. In: Chryssanthou, Anargyros and Apostolakis, Ioannis and Varlamis, Iraklis, eds. Certification and Security in Health-Related Web Applications: Concepts and Solutions. Premier Reference Source . Medical Information Science Reference, New York, pp. 243-263. ISBN 978-1-61692-897-1. (KAR id:31988)

Abstract

Password sharing is a common security problem. Some application domains are more exposed than others

and, by dealing with very sensitive information, the healthcare domain is definitely not exempt from this

problem. This chapter presents a case study of a cross section of how healthcare professionals actually

deal with password authentication in typical real world scenarios. It then compares the professionals’

actual practice with what they feel about password sharing and what are the most frequent problems

associated with it. Further, this chapter discusses and suggests how to solve or minimize some of these

problems using both technological and social cultural mechanisms.

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: David Chadwick
Date Deposited: 25 Oct 2012 15:37 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31988 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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