Aligning security and usability

The bringing up of security and usability into alignment is discussed. Conflicts between security and usability can be avoided by taking a different approach to security in the design process and the design itself. An essential technique for aligning security and usability is incorporating security decisions into the users' workflow by inferring authorization from acts of designation that are already part of their primary task. It is found that both the security and usability communities have advocated iterative development processes based on repeated analysis, design, and evaluation cycles, rather than linear processes in which security or usability testing occurs at the end.