The psychology of cybersecurity is an interdisciplinary field studying how human behavior, cognitive biases, and social dynamics influence information security. While traditional cybersecurity focuses on hardware and software vulnerabilities, this discipline addresses human factors, which are exploited in cyberattacks and cybercrime. The study of psychology in cybersecurity draws from cognitive psychology and human–computer interaction, and it intersects with usable security and cyberpsychology.
For example, psychologists consider optimism bias, hyperbolic discounting, and behavioral economics as factors in people's decisions related to their information privacy.
See also
Alarm fatigue Engineering psychology Information security awareness Password fatigue Password psychology Social engineering
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External links
CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory — Carnegie Mellon University USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) NIST Usable Cybersecurity Program