INSTRUCTIONS:
There has been a lot of debate over whether security questions to retrieve or change a password is really secure. Many of these questions include: What’s your mother’s maiden name? Or, what elementary school did you attend? Answers to these to these and similarly asked personal questions are available online and thieves can find the information order to break into your systems, bank accounts, credit cards, or other vital accounts. In addition to doing some research on best practices, you will be creating a brief 2 – 5 item survey/questionnaire to find out how secure people think their information is. You must survey at least 10 people. If you want to conduct an electronic survey, you can use Survey Monkey for free. The free account does not allow you to print, but you can do a screen shot of the analytics or simply provide the survey items and the responses. For this assignment, you will be providing: Security question best practices (cite references, if used) Your survey items and responses Any conclusions that you draw based on your survey