Editorial: Cognition, Behavior and Cybersecurity

Frontiers in Psychology

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Paul Watters¹  Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage²  David Maimon³  Richard Keith Wortley⁴ 

[1] Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University;Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University;Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University, United States;Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, United Kingdom

关键词: cybersecurity;    cognition;    behaviour;    malware;    phishing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.728132

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Cybersecurity appears to be the ultimate paradox: while cybersecurity budgets are increased everyyear, and a vast array of new security products and services appear in the market, cyber attackshave been increasing in scale and scope every year. 2020 will perhaps be remembered as the “Yearof Ransomware” as malware authors rendered useless every technical attempt to block them fromattacking critical systems and data.In this Research Topic, we have tried to present an alternative but highly complementary viewto the almost total focus on purely technical solutions in cybersecurity, namely—that cybersecurityattacks ultimately succeed because they target the cognitive and behavioural vulnerabilities ofordinary users, and that for attacks to be prevented (at best) or mitigated (at least), user-focusedtechniques must be researched, fostered, and developed.The small but growing band of dedicated researchers and practitioners in human factorsin cybersecurity is making real inroads into developing a holistic view on how fundamentalpsychological principles—cognition, behaviour, perception, motivation, and emotion, to name buta few—can be readily understood within a sociotechnical context to be the primary basis forembracing a security-by-design philosophy.

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