Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science

Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science provides the reader with multiple examples of interactions between cybersecurity, psychology and neuroscience. Specifically, reviewing current research on cognitive skills of network security agents (e.g., situational awareness) as well as individual differences in cognitive measures (e.g., risk taking, impulsivity, procrastination, among others) underlying cybersecurity attacks. Chapters on detection of network attacks as well as detection of cognitive engineering attacks are also included. This book also outlines various modeling frameworks, including agent-based modeling, network modeling, as well as cognitive modeling methods to both understand and improve cybersecurity.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Social Engineering, Security, and Cyber Attacks 1. Social Engineering Attacks and Defenses in the Physical World vs. Cyberspace: A Contrast Study 2. A Dual Integrated Dynamic Intrusion Detection System (DID-IDS) for Protection Against Network and Social Engineering Attacks 3. Working from Home Users at Risk of the COVID-19 Ransomware Attacks 4. Individual Differences in Cyber Security Behavior Using Personality Based Models to Predict Susceptibility to Sextortion Attacks 5. The Development of a Logic for Capturing Mismorphisms: Deconstructing Security and Privacy Issues Part II: Behavioral Studies of Cybersecurity 6. Are you Anonymous? Social Psychological Processes of Hacking Groups 7. On the Relation Between Hacking and Autism or Autistic Traits: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Evidence 8. An Introduction to Cyberbullying 9. The Impact of Cyberbullying Across the Lifespan 10. Cyber Situational Awareness Issues and Challenges 11. Development and Application of the Information Security Core Human Error Causes (IS-CHEC) Technique Part III: Machine Learning and Modeling  Applications to Cybersecurity 12. Machine Learning for the Security of Healthcare Systems Based on Internet of Things and Edge  Computing? 13. Lying Trolls: Detecting Deception and Text-Based Disinformation Using Machine Learning 14. Modeling the Effects of Network Size in a Deception Game Involving Honeypots 15. Computational Modeling of Decisions in Cyber-Security Games in the Presence or Absence of Interdependence Information

About the Author :
Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is the Head of School of Psychology and Professor of Psychology and Computational Modeling at Bond University, Australia. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at Cairo University, Egypt, and his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Lafayette, USA. Dr. Moustafa specializes in computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Discover Psychology (Springer) and has edited ten books, including Elsevier’s Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction; The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity; Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia; Mental Health Effects of COVID-19; Alzheimer’s Disease; Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science; Big Data in Psychiatry and Neurology; The Nature of Depression; and Social Cognition in Psychosis.