Comparing Online Surveys for Cybersecurity: SONA and MTurk

[摘要] People have many accounts and usually need to create a password for each. They tend to create insecurepasswords and re-use passwords, which can lead to compromised data. This research examines if there is a linkbetween personality type and password security among a variety of participants in two groups of participants:SONA and MTurk. Each participant in both surveys answered questions based on password security and theirpersonality type. Our results show that participants in the MTurk survey were more likely to choose a strongpassword and to exhibit better security behaviors and knowledge than participants in the SONA survey. Thisis mostly attributed to the age difference. However, the distribution of the results was similar for both MTurkand SONA. In the second part of our study, we found that security behaviors actually went down – this couldbe due to the pandemic or indicative of a need for more regular messaging/training.

[学科分类] 口腔科学

[关键词] Survey;Password Strength;Personality;MTurk;SONA