Bachelor assignment
Studying, Analysing, and improving human behaviour for cyber security. how can people make choices about security and privacy? (offered to Bachelor SCS/Master SCS
TYPE : MASTER t.b.a.
Period: Start date: as soon as possible
Student: Unassigned
If you are interested please contact:
Description:
The research aims to understand human behaviour in cyber security and recognize and mitigate those human cyber security errors. For example, when an individual clicks on an unknown weblink even though he knows the consequences of clicking, opens an email, downloads document(s), stores passwords in easily accessible places, etc. The individual’s behaviour may develop a security risk for the organization and provide a lead to the hackers to attack the entire system. The focus of the research is to identify the drivers that motivated someone to exhibit such kind of behaviour, and also mitigate the risk by finding ways to change human behaviour unconsciously.
Requirements:
- Interest in data analysis
- Interest in cyber security with human psychology, Machine learning can also be helpful.
- Interest in any programming language Matlab/Python
References:
- Leveraging human factors in cybersecurity: an integrated methodological approach, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10111-021-00683-y
- The Role of User Behaviour in Improving Cyber Security Management, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.561011/full
- Exploring user behavioral data for adaptive cybersecurity, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11257-019-09236-5