Author Date

2021-06-18

Degree Name

Department

Computer Science

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Defense Date

2021-06-08

Publication Date

2021-06-18

First Faculty Advisor

Casey Deccio

First Faculty Reader

Xinru Page

Honors Coordinator

Seth Holladay

Keywords

multi-factor authentication, BYU, Google, Facebook, Amazon, security

Abstract

A sample of 47 BYU students were recruited to participate in this study to determine who was using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) on their online accounts. This study determined that there were many different factors that separated those who used MFA and those who did not. Some of those factors included: time spent on the internet each day, gender, the website itself, and personal privacy behaviors.