Protecting computing systems involves the efforts of a large number of people. However, the connection between people and computers is often the biggest vulnerability in the system. This issue includes seven papers that describe how people protect computing systems, and the challenges and opportunities they provide.

Special issues and sections, Internet and web services, Computer security, Privacy, Human computer interaction, Usability

R. Wash and M. E. Zurko, "Usable Security," in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 19-21, 2017.
doi:10.1109/MIC.2017.69