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Heuristic Evaluation Tutorial
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Heuristic Evaluation
• Goal: Identifying usability problems in existing systems
• Checking compliance with a set of usability principles
• Performed individually • Results will be aggregated
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Heuristic Evaluation
• The scope is limited to scenarios • You can go through the interface several times• You should specify: – The problem – The task– The heuristic(s)
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IT security management (ITSM) tools
• IT security management tools are components in the design, development, and maintenance of a secure information technology infrastructure. – Examples: network firewall, intrusion detection
system, identity and access management system
• Characteristics of the ITSM environment– Complex, collaborative, people with different
backgrounds
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Example ITSM Tool
• Firewall as a running example• Filtering packet based on certain
characteristics• Firewall use rules for this purpose– E.g. block every connection from 123.123.100.100
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HEURISTICS
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1 – Visibility of activity status
Provide users with awareness about the status of the activity distributed over time and space, including the other users involved in the activity, their actions, and distribution of work between them; rules that govern the activity; tools, information, and material that are used in the activity; and progress toward the activity objective. Provide communication channels for transferring the status of the activity. While providing awareness is crucial, provide awareness only about what a user needs to know to complete his actions.
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1 – Visibility of activity status
Providing communication channelsProvide shared view of the system stateProvide information about who is responsibleDon’t show all the firewall rules
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Firewall
2- History of actions and changes on artifacts
Allow capturing the history of actions and changes on tools or other artefacts such as policies, logs, and communication between users. Provide a means for searching and analyzing historical information.
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2- History of actions and changes on artifacts
- Provide archiving - History of actions- Data correlation and filtering
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Security Admin 1
Security admin 2
Firewall
3- Flexible representation of information
Allow changing the representation of information to suit the target audience and their current task. Support flexible reports. Allow tools to change the representation of their input/output for flexible combination with other tools.
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3- Flexible representation of information
Malicious network activity
What is the source ip addresses?
Total number/month?
Packet analyzer • Different presentation formats or multiple views
• Flexible reporting • Different methods of interaction with the tool• Combinable tools • Customizable tools 12
Firewall
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4- Rules and constraints
Promote rules and constraints on ITSM activities, but provide freedom for users to choose different paths that respect the constraints. Constraints can be enforced in multiple layers. For example, a tool could constrain the possible actions based on the task, the chosen strategy for performing the task (e.g., the order of performing actions), the social and organizational structure (e.g., number of subjects involved in the task, policies, standards), and the competency of the user.
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4- Rules and constraints
Standards? Organization policy?………
- Allow application of different policies- List actions in hierarchical fashion
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Security Admin Firewall
5- Planning and dividing work between users
Facilitate dividing work between the users involved in an activity. For routine and pre-determined tasks, allow incorporation of a workflow. For unknown conditions, allow generation of new work plans and incorporation of new users.
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5- Planning and dividing work between users
Subdomain A notifications
Subdomain B notifications
Subdomain C notifications• Support workflow• Task prioritization
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Security Admin 1
Security Admin 2
Security Admin 3
6- Capturing, sharing, and discovery of knowledge
Allow users to capture and store their knowledge explicitly by generating documents, web-pages, scripts, and notes or implicitly by providing access to a history of their previous actions. Tools could then facilitate sharing such knowledge with other users. Furthermore, tools should facilitate discovery of the required knowledge source including artefacts or a person who possess the knowledge and provide means of communicating with the person who possesses the knowledge.
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6- Capturing, sharing, and discovery of knowledge
There is a new attack that exploits port 22 ….
- Knowledge sharing - Support scripts- Tagging / Wiki / Social Navigation- Communication channel
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Security Admin in Organization 2
Security admin in organization 1
Firewall in organization 1
Firewall in organization 2
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7- Verification of knowledge
For critical ITSM activities, tools should help SPs validate their knowledge about the actions that are required to perform the activity. Allow users to validate their knowledge by performing actions and validating the results on a test system before applying them to the real system. Allow users to document the required actions in the form of a note or a script; this helps the users or their colleagues to review the required actions before applying them on the system.
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7- Verification of knowledge
Test
Real• Rehearsal and planning • Manageable configuration
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Online sources in the internet
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IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The target system for heuristic evaluation
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IdM System
Identity management systemCertification Process
Notification
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IdM System
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Employees
System Demo
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Focus group
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Focus group process• Do you find the heuristics useful in finding
usability problems? • Do you find heuristics easy to understand? • Do you find heuristics easy to apply?• How they can be improved? • After performing the evaluation, do you think
your understanding about these heuristics has changed?
• Have you found problems that are not covered by the heuristics?
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