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Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science

  • 1st Edition - May 27, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Ahmed Moustafa
  • Language: English

Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science provides the reader with multiple examples of interactions between cybersecurity, psychology and neuroscience. Specifically, reviewing curren… Read more

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Description

Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science provides the reader with multiple examples of interactions between cybersecurity, psychology and neuroscience. Specifically, reviewing current research on cognitive skills of network security agents (e.g., situational awareness) as well as individual differences in cognitive measures (e.g., risk taking, impulsivity, procrastination, among others) underlying cybersecurity attacks. Chapters on detection of network attacks as well as detection of cognitive engineering attacks are also included. This book also outlines various modeling frameworks, including agent-based modeling, network modeling, as well as cognitive modeling methods to both understand and improve cybersecurity.

Key features

  • Outlines cognitive modeling within cybersecurity problems
  • Reviews the connection between intrusion detection systems and human psychology
  • Discusses various cognitive strategies for enhancing cybersecurity
  • Summarizes the cognitive skills of efficient network security agents, including the role of situational awareness

Readership

Researchers in psychology who study human. Professionals in computer science, engineering, tech development, cyber security, and policy-making

Table of contents

Part I: Social Engineering, Security, and Cyber Attacks

1. Social Engineering Attacks and Defenses in the Physical World vs. Cyberspace: A Contrast Study
Shouhuai Xu

2. A Dual Integrated Dynamic Intrusion Detection System (DID-IDS) for Protection Against Network and Social Engineering Attacks
Ahmed A. Moustafa

3. Working from Home Users at Risk of the COVID-19 Ransomware Attacks
Abubakar Bello

4. Individual Differences in Cyber Security Behavior Using Personality Based Models to Predict Susceptibility to Sextortion Attacks
Abubakar Bello

5. The Development of a Logic for Capturing Mismorphisms: Deconstructing Security and Privacy Issues
Vijay Harshed Kothari

Part II: Behavioral Studies of Cybersecurity

6. Are you Anonymous? Social Psychological Processes of Hacking Groups
John McAlaney

7. On the Relation Between Hacking and Autism or Autistic Traits: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Evidence
Elena Rusconi

8. An Introduction to Cyberbullying
Peter J. R. Macaulay and Lucy R. Betts

9. The Impact of Cyberbullying Across the Lifespan
Lucy R. Betts

10. Cyber Situational Awareness Issues and Challenges
Ulrik Franke, Annika Andreasson, Henrik Artman, Joel Brynielsson, Stefan Varga and Niklas Vilhelm

11. Development and Application of the Information Security Core Human Error Causes (IS-CHEC) Technique
Mark Evans, Ying He, Leandros Maglaras and Helge Janicke

Part III: Machine Learning and Modeling Applications to Cybersecurity

12. Machine Learning for the Security of Healthcare Systems Based on Internet of Things and Edge Computing?
Devrim Unal, Shada Bennbaia and Ferhat Ozgur Catak

13. Lying Trolls: Detecting Deception and Text-Based Disinformation Using Machine Learning
Alex V. Mbaziira, Maha Sabir and Micheline Al Harrack

14. Modeling the Effects of Network Size in a Deception Game Involving Honeypots
Harsh Katakwar and Varun Dutt

15. Computational Modeling of Decisions in Cyber-Security Games in the Presence or Absence of Interdependence Information
Varun Dutt

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 31, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Ahmed Moustafa

Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is the Head of School of Psychology and Professor of Psychology and Computational Modeling at Bond University, Australia. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at Cairo University, Egypt, and his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Lafayette, USA. Dr. Moustafa specializes in computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Discover Psychology (Springer) and has edited ten books, including Elsevier’s Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction; The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity; Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia; Mental Health Effects of COVID-19; Alzheimer’s Disease; Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science; Big Data in Psychiatry and Neurology; The Nature of Depression; and Social Cognition in Psychosis.

Affiliations and expertise
School of Psychology, Bond University, Robina, Queensland, Australia

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