ICT 615 –Information Technology Research Methods
Semester 1, 2019
Assignment 2
User’s awareness impacts on password security
Submitted By
Mirza Azifa Sultana (33268482)
Vajratiya Vajrobol (33296085)
Amanjot (33516
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ICT 615 –Information Technology Research Methods
Semester 1, 2019
Assignment 2
User’s awareness impacts on password security
Submitted By
Mirza Azifa Sultana (33268482)
Vajratiya Vajrobol (33296085)
Amanjot (33516689)
Mahmud Hasan (33165183)
Parul Arora (33361886)
1 | P a g eCONTENTS
Abstract..........................................................................................................3
Keywords........................................................................................................3
Introduction....................................................................................................3
Literature review.............................................................................................4
Information security awareness...................................................................4
Information Security Training.......................................................................4
Individual Security awareness......................................................................5
Password Strength.......................................................................................5
Hypotheses.....................................................................................................6
Method...........................................................................................................8
Data analysis and result..................................................................................9
Discussion.....................................................................................................12
Future Work..................................................................................................12
Conclusion....................................................................................................13
References....................................................................................................13
2 | P a g eABSTRACT
Information nowadays has become one of the most precious assets in organizations. Many
organizations consider the employees are one of the weak threats in information security.
The employee can be one of the significant resources for reducing the risk of information
security if they follow the rules and regulations which are designed to strengthen
information security. Protecting access through the password is also one of the most
significant methods that can help an organization to maintain its security. Password
authentication has been adopted commonly in the technology environment to protect
resources from unauthorized access. There is no paper showing the proper way to create the
user awareness of password security. Thus the research shows how the awareness can be
created among users and identified the factors that influence the intention to comply with
password guideline and password security in terms of strength and length
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