Behavioral Cyber Sciences
Abstract
The point where hardware, software, and humans interact has become a jumping off point for a new area of research – behavioral cyber science. Cyber operations should be seen in the context of a larger socio-behavioral-technical domain. Research in behavioral cyber science seeks to advance the understanding and technical rigor of modeling and predicting human responses to cyber activities and to discover ways to inject this understanding into the human aspects of cyber operations, cyber defense systems, planning, and training. Future research must broaden the scope beyond the impacts of cyber actions on equipment, and also include the impact that these cyber actions will have on broader human behavior. Just as an adversary’s behavior may be better understood using behavioral cyber science, behavioral science can be utilized to help understand ways to improve the actions of cyber defenders and the performance of the cyber workforce. Data gleaned from observing effects of various cyber operations on users’ productivity, performance, and security will help the cyber workforce design better techniques and processes for use in cyber defense.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- cce2e530c9d1c767e77839d2a79dc4c9
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- Root: Cyber Security Research