Integrating cultural factors into human factors framework and ontology for cyber attackers

Diane Henshel, Char Sample, Mariana Cains, Blaine Hoffman

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Abstract

The multiple types of culture (e.g. national, social, religious, ethnic, geographic, organizational) that influence human behavioral characteristics and interactions also affect how humans interact with technology and the Internet. In an effort to further understand (and measure) how human factors influence cybersecurity risk, we propose incorporating individuals’ national culture within the human factors framework component of our holistic cybersecurity risk assessment framework. The justification for this inclusion of national culture into the framework results from Nisbett’s, Heinrich’s, and Hofstede’s work with culture and cognition along with Sample’s work with culture and cyber. Culture is a key factor with respect to the human element that has been understudied in cybersecurity risk literature. By identifying the critical culture metrics and integrating them within the Human Factors Framework and Ontology developed for identifying cybersecurity risk assessment metrics for modeling to facilitate additional experimentation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Cybersecurity, 2016
EditorsDenise Nicholson
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages123-136
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319419312
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventInternational Conference on Human Factors in Cybersecurity, 2016 - Walt Disney World, United States
Duration: Jul 27 2016Jul 31 2016

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume501
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Human Factors in Cybersecurity, 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWalt Disney World
Period07/27/1607/31/16

Keywords

  • Culture
  • Cybersecurity
  • Metrics
  • Risk assessment

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