Academic Articles & Research Papers

Human behaviour as an aspect of cybersecurity assurance

Abstract There continue to be numerous breaches publicised pertaining to cybersecurity despite security practices being applied within industry for many years. This paper is intended to be the first in a number of papers as research into cy...

Gaps and Opportunities in Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity

Demand is present among security practitioners for improving cyber situational awareness (SA), but capability and assessment have not risen to match. SA is an integral component of cybersecurity for everyone from individuals to business to ...

Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures: Attack and Defense Modeling

Disruption of electric power operations can be catastrophic on national security and the economy. Due to the complexity of widely dispersed assets and the interdependences among computer, communication, and power infrastructures, the requir...

Cybersecurity Awareness Framework for Academia

Cybersecurity is a multifaceted global phenomenon representing complex socio-technical challenges for governments and private sectors. With technology constantly evolving, the types and numbers of cyberattacks affect different users in diff...

Cybersecurity

Laboratory digitization can dramatically improve automation, quality control, and data analysis, reduce human error, and ensure process reproducibility. However, cybersecurity threats can compromise sensitive data and disrupt laboratory ope...

Cybersecurity for Industry 5.0: trends and gaps

Industry 5.0 promises to revolutionize the industry by focusing on human-centric, sustainability, and resilience empowered by emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digitalization. This paradigm shift is expected to ...

Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity

The Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity examines the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of international peace and security. Acknowledging that the very notion of peac...

Towards an Improved Understanding of Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity cannot be addressed by technology alone; the most intractable aspects are in fact sociotechnical. As a result, the 'human factor' has been recognised as being the weakest and most obscure link in creating safe and secure digit...

Cybersecurity

All civilian and military activities have become highly dependent on cyberspace. This creates new vulnerabilities both to accidents and intentional threats. Malevolent individuals and organisations may, without any physical presence, infilt...

Human Performance in Cybersecurity: A Research Agenda

This paper provides an overview of critical areas of human performance research required to support the development and deployment of effective cybersecurity systems. These areas include usability and security compliance, mitigation of huma...

Cybersecurity issues in robotics

Cybersecurity is not highly prioritized during the design and manufacture of robots. As with other embedded systems a higher priority is placed on development costs and delivering functionality to consumers. In the future greater attention ...

Cybersecurity, safety and robots: Strengthening the link between cybersecurity and safety in the context of care robots

This paper addresses the interplay between robots, cybersecurity, and safety from a European legal perspective, a topic under-explored by current technical and legal literature. The legal framework, together with technical standards, is a n...

Organizational science and cybersecurity: abundant opportunities for research at the interface

Cybersecurity is an ever-present problem for organizations, but organizational science has barely begun to enter the arena of cybersecurity research. As a result, the "human factor" in cybersecurity research is much less studied than its te...

Cybersecurity

In Chapter 9, we argue that cybersecurity professionals embody the ideal of the careful, systematic upgrading that Move Slow and Upgrade has been advocating for. Unlike the flashy innovations that we’ve criticized in earlier chapters, cyber...

Botching Human Factors in Cybersecurity in Business Organizations

Abstract Human factors remained unexplored and underappreciated in information security. The mounting cyber-attacks, data breaches, and ransomware attacks are a result of human-enabled errors, in fact, 95% of all cyber incidents are human-e...

Knowledge in the grey zone: AI and cybersecurity

Abstract Cybersecurity protects citizens and society from harm perpetrated through computer networks. Its task is made ever more complex by the diversity of actors—criminals, spies, militaries, hacktivists, firms—operating in global informa...

Hacking the Human: The Prevalence Paradox in Cybersecurity

OBJECTIVE: This work assesses the efficacy of the "prevalence effect" as a form of cyberattack in human-automation teaming, using an email task. BACKGROUND: Under the prevalence effect, rare signals are more difficult to detect, even when t...

Gender difference and employees' cybersecurity behaviors

From physical security to cybersecurity

Security is a critical concern around the world. In many domains from cybersecurity to sustainability, limited security resources prevent complete security coverage at all times. Instead, these limited resources must be scheduled (or alloca...

Cybersecurity

This chapter introduces students to cybersecurity and provides conceptual and methodological foundations for students’ further cybersecurity research. The chapter begins with an initial ‘Explore’ section that introduces the Colonial Pipelin...