Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities

Vladlena Benson,John McAlaney

• Editorial: Academic Press
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780128165942
• Categoría: Psychology
• Categoría: Social Psychology

Emerging 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

Índice

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Factors leading to cyber victimization
• Chapter 2. Cyberterrorism – the spectre that is the convergence of the physical and virtual worlds
• Chapter 3. Closed, safe and secure – the Russian sense of information security
• Chapter 4. The social and psychological impact of cyberattacks
• Chapter 5. The relationship between user religiosity and preserved privacy in the context of social media and cybersecurity
• Chapter 6. Avoiding a cyber world war: rational motives for negative cooperation among the United States, China and Russia
• Chapter 7. Standard operating procedures for cybercrime investigations: a systematic literature review
• Chapter 8. Information and communication technologies: a curse or blessing for SMEs?
• Chapter 9. Cyber personalities in adaptive target audiences
• Chapter 10. Privacy issues and critical infrastructure protection
• Index