
Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities
- 1st Edition - September 20, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Vladlena Benson, John McAlaney
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 2 0 3 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 5 9 4 - 2
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Request a sales quoteEmerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities identifies the critical role human behavior plays in cybersecurity and provides insights into how human decision-making can help address rising volumes of cyberthreats. The book examines the role of psychology in cybersecurity by addressing each actor involved in the process: hackers, targets, cybersecurity practitioners and the wider social context in which these groups operate. It applies psychological factors such as motivations, group processes and decision-making heuristics that may lead individuals to underestimate risk. The goal of this understanding is to more quickly identify threat and create early education and prevention strategies.
This book covers a variety of topics and addresses different challenges in response to changes in the ways in to study various areas of decision-making, behavior, artificial intelligence, and human interaction in relation to cybersecurity.
- Explains psychological factors inherent in machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Discusses the social psychology of online radicalism and terrorist recruitment
- Examines the motivation and decision-making of hackers and "hacktivists"
- Investigates the use of personality psychology to extract secure information from individuals
Researchers in psychology who study human-factors, human-computer interaction, and applied psych. Secondary market: professionals in computer science, engineering, tech development, and policy-making
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 20, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 252
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128162033
- eBook ISBN: 9780128165942
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