An Integrated Approach of Fuzzy Logic, AHP and TOPSIS for Estimating Usable-Security of Web Applications

Alka Agrawal,Md Mottahir Alam,Asif Irshad Khan,Raees Ahmad Khan,Yoosef B. Abushark,Rajeev Kumar

doi:10.1109/access.2020.2970245

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Abstract

Security and usability are often thought of as being contradictive in nature. One affects the other negatively. The relation and trade-offs between usability and security must be detected during developing web application to satisfy the user’s requirements with security perspective. Current approaches of usable-security emphasizes on building systems that are easy to use and secure as well. Hence, this paper is recognizing usability-security as a problem with different attributes contributing towards it. Further, there is a need to assess this problem for the satisfaction of the end user. In this context, this study proposes the track of Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS (Analytic Hierarchy Process-Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) technique to assess the usable-security of web application and also identifies the most prioritized attribute contributing towards building usable-security of web application. Moreover, to corroborate the efficacy of the proposed technique, the authors have tested the results on the institutional web applications. The results of the assessment undertaken in this study and the findings tabulated thereafter will be a helpful reckoner for the developers while designing web applications that afford optimum usable-security.

Highlights

Due to the lack of security measures in a user-oriented way, security and usability have become two important qualities or attributes which should be taken into consideration while building usable and secure software [1]
Operational usability-security and its combination at early stage of web application development life cycle require clarifying the current perceptions of usability and defining an existing security assessment framework
The results corroborate that for achieving the usable-secure web application, developers should focus on user-error protection and security durability

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Due to the lack of security measures in a user-oriented way, security and usability have become two important qualities or attributes which should be taken into consideration while building usable and secure software [1]. R. Kumar et al.: Integrated Approach of Fuzzy Logic, AHP and TOPSIS for Estimating Usable-Security of Web Applications no mathematical or empirical attempt yet to ensure usablesecurity by considering its contributing attributes. The decision makers need to know the factors that contribute to usablesecurity but they must identify the most usable factors among them for taking the most conversant decision Given this backdrop, the contributors of this paper recommend a framework for usable-security assessment. The authors have taken a fuzzy based hybrid technique of AHP-TOPSIS [12]. This hybrid technique helps to gain optimum results.

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