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User Attitudes About Duo Two-Factor Authentication At Byu, Jonathan Dutson
User Attitudes About Duo Two-Factor Authentication At Byu, Jonathan Dutson
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Simple password-based authentication provides insufficient protection against increasingly common incidents of online identity theft and data loss. Although two-factor authentication (2FA) provides users with increased protection against attackers, users have mixed feelings about the usability of 2FA. We surveyed the students, faculty, and staff of Brigham Young University (BYU) to measure user sentiment about DUO Security, the 2FA system adopted by BYU in 2017. We find that most users consider DUO to be annoying, and about half of those surveyed expressed a preference for authentication without using a second-factor. About half of all participants reported at least one instance of …
Capturing And Analyzing Network Traffic From Common Mobile Devices For Security And Privacy, Billy Overton
Capturing And Analyzing Network Traffic From Common Mobile Devices For Security And Privacy, Billy Overton
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones are becoming more common, and they are holding more information. This includes private information such as contacts, financial data, and passwords. At the same time these devices have network capability with access to the Internet being a prime feature. Little research has been done in observing the network traffic produced by these mobile devices. To determine if private information was being transmitted without user knowledge, the mobile capture lab and a set of procedures have been created to observe, capture and analyze the network traffic produced by mobile devices. The effectiveness of the …