Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities
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Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities by Vladlena Benson,John McAlaney,John Mcalaney in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Personality in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780128162033
eBook ISBN
9780128165942
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Personality in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

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