The present paper focuses on Cyber Security Awareness Campaigns, and aims to identify key factors regarding security which may lead them to failing to appropriately change people’s behaviour. Past and current efforts to improve information-security practices and...
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Establishing human factors programs to mitigate blind spots in cyber security
Most business organizations lack a human factors program and remain inattentive to human-centric issues and human-related problems that are leading to cybersecurity incidents, significant financial losses, reputational damage, and lost production. Other industries...
Challenges of implementing training and awareness programs targeting cyber security social engineering
Information security is one of the growing sources of concern that organizations are dealing with today. With increased levels of sophistication of social engineering threats, the exploits from such attacks are evolving. This study highlights some of the challenges...
Human factors in the cyber security of autonomous vehicles: Trends in current research
The cybersecurity of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is an important emerging area of research in traffic safety. Because human failure is the most common reason for a successful cyberattack, human-factor researchers and psychologists might improve AV cybersecurity by...
Social engineering: The human element of cyber security
Social engineering is a method that has been used by criminals and scammers for centuries in order to manipulate people in order to manipulate people into performing a particular action or into giving up sensitive or confidential information. Today, social engineering...
Personality as a predictor of cyber security behavior
Personality may better predict cybersecurity behavior relative to an individual’s stated intentions; however, people often behave in ways that are discordant with what they intend. Assuming most people have the intention of complying with safe practices, it is still...
Cyber security culture guidelines: Behavioural aspects of cyber security
The present report is concerned with human aspects of cybersecurity including not only psychology and sociology, but also ethnography, anthropology, human biology, behavioural economics and any other subject that takes humans as its main focal point.
Evaluating passwords, user behavior and the psychology of password management
Regardless of how complex an association's security framework is, it stays helpless because of the human factor. Content based passwords are usually utilized for verification in figuring condition. Despite the fact that passwords are considered as the underlying line...
Cognitive processing of phishing emails
Phishing, the process of tricking people using emails and imitation of websites, has been studied from different points of views (computer sciences, engineering, economy, security and sociology) while the matter largely involves social cognition. This scoping review...
Research on countermeasures of strengthening information security education of college students
This paper aims to study the countermeasures of strengthening information security education of college students, improve college students' awareness of personal information protection, and effectively protect college students' personal information security. By means...