Teaching psychological principles to cybersecurity students

Jacqui Taylor; John McAlaney; Sarah Hodge; Helen Thackray; Christopher Richardson; Susie James; John Dale

doi:10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7943091

Teaching psychological principles to cybersecurity students

Jacqui Taylor, John McAlaney, Sarah Hodge, Helen Thackray, Christopher Richardson, Susie James, John Dale

Western Sydney University

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![CDATA[This paper will discuss our observations gained from teaching psychological principles and methods to undergraduate and postgraduate cybersecurity students. We will draw on and extend our previous work encouraging the teaching of psychology in computing and cybersecurity education. We pay special attention to the consideration of characteristics of cybersecurity students in terms of teaching psychology in a way that will be accessible and engaging. We then discuss the development and use of an online training tool which draws on psychology to help educators and companies to raise awareness of cybersecurity risks in students and employees. Finally, we offer some practical suggestions to incorporate psychology into the cybersecurity curriculum.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 25-28 April 2017, Athens, Greece
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1782-1789
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781509054671
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7943091
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - Duration: 9 Apr 2019 → …

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Conference	IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
Period	9/04/19 → …

Keywords

cognition
computer security
cyberterrorism
decision support systems
education, higher
social engineering

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Taylor, J, McAlaney, J, Hodge, S, Thackray, H, Richardson, C, James, S & Dale, J 2017, Teaching psychological principles to cybersecurity students. in Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 25-28 April 2017, Athens, Greece. IEEE, pp. 1782-1789, IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, 9/04/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7943091

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