• DocumentCode
    1305991
  • Title

    Security and Cognitive Bias: Exploring the Role of the Mind

  • Author

    Smith, Sean W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dartmouth College
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    75
  • Lastpage
    78
  • Abstract
    It´s hard to create and configure security technology and hard to use it after deployment. However, the human mind is a component in both security creation and use. While we technologists have spent the last 40 years building fancier machines, psychologists have spent those decades documenting ways in which human minds systematically (and predictably) misperceive things. To what extent might cognitive bias affect the usable security problem?
  • Keywords
    cognition; psychology; security of data; cognitive bias; human mind; psychologists; security creation; security technology; usable security problem; Behavioral science; Cognitive informatics; Computer security; Human factors; Psychology; cognitive bias; usable security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2012.126
  • Filename
    6322976
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1305991