A Security Framework for Enhancing User Experience

In this paper, we present a novel framework that enhances user experience for their daily computing activities while being protected from cyber threats. The conceptual security framework also targets two additional goals: enabling end-users to experiment software applications before making a decision for a real installation, and serving as a testing environment for both research scholars and security practitioners to analyze and predict potentially malicious activities. The framework introduces three modes of operations (full lockdown, partial lockdown, and administration) and a virtual storage that provides a safe, secure, and reliable computing environment for end-users. We also present three use cases that show the applicability of their framework in a real-world environment.