In Defence of the Human Factor

Frontiers in Psychology

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Ciarán Mc Mahon¹ 

[1] Institute of Cyber Security;School of Psychology, University College Dublin

关键词: cybersecurity;    human factors;    software;    psychology;    theory;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01390

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

A trope that has long dominated cybersecurity is the idea that“humans are the weakest link.” Whileits intellectual origins predate the industry by several decades, if not centuries, for our presentpurposes we need go back no further than the beginning of this millennium. It seems to have startedwith Schneier (2000), and continued with Mitnick and Simon (2002). Since then, cybersecuritydiscourse has been awash with this cliché.

【 授权许可】

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