Behavioral Cybersecurity: Fundamental Principles and Applications of Personality Psychology

by Wayne Patterson, Cynthia E Winston-Proctor

Since the introduction and proliferation of the Internet, cybersecurity maintenance issues have grown exponentially. The importance of behavioral cybersecurity has recently been amplified by current events, such as misinformation and cyber-attacks related to election interference in the United States and internationally. More recently, similar issues have occurred in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The book presents profiling approaches, offers case studies of major cybersecurity events and provides analysis of password attacks and defenses. Discussing psychological methods used to assess behavioral cybersecurity, alongside risk management, the book also describes game theory and its applications, explores the role of cryptology and steganography in attack and defense scenarios and brings the reader up to date with current research into motivation and attacker/defender personality traits.

176 pages, ebook

Published November 24, 2020

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don’t know what that book tried to cover but it’s very shallow and the authors seem to have filled it with detailed chapters on Cryptography which is a great concept for sure but has nothing to do with the book’s subject.