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Evaluation strategies for cyber security training methods: A literature review
Security and Awareness Training (SAT) has been available for several decades and is commonly given as a suggestion for improving the cyber security behavior of end-users. However, attackers continue to exploit the human factor suggesting that current SAT methods are...
Cyber security and digital exclusion of seniors: What do they fear?
Seniors represent a group that, compared to other groups, lives in a digital exclusion to an excessive extent, mainly due to the fact that they lack the necessary knowledge to use digital technology and digital services. Based on empirical data collected from seniors...
Is it possible to change the cyber security behaviours of employees? Barriers and promoters
The increase in cyber attacks cause individuals and businesses to face financial loss and reputation damage. Most cyber security studies ignore human factor and focus only on technological measures although the cyber security behaviors of employees are vital for the...
Introduction to the Special section on artificial intelligence security: Adversarial attack and defense
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely adopted in various applications such as face detection, speech recognition, machine learning, etc. Due to the lack of theoretical explanation, recent works show that AI is vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially deep...
What parts of usable security are most important to users?
This paper builds on previous work and investigates what usability factors users prioritize and what demographic factors that affects the perception of usability factors. This is done through a survey answered by 1452 respondents from Sweden, Italy and UK. The results...
Beyond Murphy’s law: Applying wider human factors behavioural science approaches in cyber security resilience
Practitioners’ experience and use of different assessment methods and approaches to establish cyber-security vulnerabilities and risk are evaluated. Qualitative and quantitative methods and data are used for different stages of investigations in order to derive risk...
Social engineering attacks: Recent advances and challenges
The world’s technological landscape is continuously evolving with new possibilities, yet also evolving in parallel with the emergence of new threats. Social engineering is of predominant concern for industries, governments and institutions due to the exploitation of...
Human characteristics and genomic factors as behavioural aspects for cyber security
This work aims to hypothesise a possible holistic architecture for specific human behaviour factors involved in cyber security risks. A good cyber security habit could prevent incidents and protect against attacks. Habits are mostly initiated automatically. Therefore,...
Digital human in cyber security risk assessment
The work aims to build a formal ontology-based model for cyber security risk assessment that considers digital human characteristics. A multi-layered architecture solution was build as a proof of concept to maintain a set of artificial intelligence algorithms and...