Developing Countries Based End-User Computing Security Issues: Threats, Holes and Solution Prospects

摘要

Security concerns comprise a prominent phenomenon in industrial computing. Software counterfeiting, hardware cloning and loss of data are always at the center of IT professionalism's thinking as it works to counteract those threats in the workspace. Still lacking however, is the awareness on security holes to industrial and personal computing, emanating from human behavior related to the end-users in the IT consumer blocks of the world, specifically the block of developing countries in Africa. In that context, the main purpose of this paper is to espouse the security holes from the end-user dimension as a way of sensitizing for inclusive security thinking among IT experts. The significance of the paper derives from at least two facts. One: while industrial computing is dominantly important, personal computing is also gaining prominence worldwide. As a result, complacency on security issues at this stage is no longer without felt consequences in industrial and mainstream computing. Two: as mobile technology use grows, so does the number of threats facing mobile data and platforms, as well as security vulnerability at personal computing level. This goes beyond the traditional data, software, and hardware concerns in industrial computing. It is noted that the level at which security concerns are stated makes a difference in the contemplation of solution options.