Designing Interventions to Persuade Software Developers to Adopt Security Tools.

The nature of security information workers' jobs requires a certain level of care and attention to detail. There exist tools that can assist these workers with their daily tasks; however, workers may not be using these tools. Research suggests persuasive techniques can positively affect a worker's outlook on a given technology. We attempt to develop an effective way to motivate security workers to adopt and use security tools by using persuasive design guidelines. We present an system that generates automated emails to inform software developers of FindBugs, a tool that detects potential vulnerabilities within a project. We discuss the decisions supporting our overall design of the automated emails.