Descriptions
The course introduces threats and challenges/concerns arising from the human behaviour and decision making regarding technology use. In lectures we are focusing on raising the ability to assess and cope with cyber scams/threats (eg. social manipulation), on research skills to conduct studies in the field and to create and implement study materials, training programs and tools based on them in order to increase level of cyber hygiene in users and companies.
Learning outcomes
After completing this course, the student:
- understands the current state of research in this area;
- can critically evaluate original research articles;
- is able to analyze cyber competences and find gaps and solutions to reduce human-related cyber risks;
- is able to plan cyber attacks which include elements of social engineering and propose defense mechanisms against them,
- is able assess and evaluate it-security interventions with employees;
- is able to understand the behavioral science underpinnings of security-critical decision-making;
- understand how cognitive biases and human failure compromise cyber security performance in practitioners.
