Ethnography of Computer Security Evasions in Healthcare Settings - Circumvention as the Norm

Explore a 23-minute conference talk from USENIX HealthTech '14 that delves into the ethnography of computer security evasions in healthcare settings. Discover how healthcare professionals' unique motivations, goals, and behaviors lead to workarounds that can weaken security policies. Learn about the importance of understanding these factors and the acts of circumvention to design effective security subsystems in medical environments. Gain insights into the research methods used, including interviews, observations, shadowing clinicians, and conducting focus groups, to comprehend the motivations behind security circumvention. Understand why ethnographic investigation of workflow is crucial for achieving security objectives in healthcare settings.