Teaching psychological principles to cybersecurity students

Jacqui Taylor, John McAlaney, Sarah Hodge, Helen Thackray, Christopher Richardson, Susie James, John Dale
2017 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)  
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
more » ... nline 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.
doi:10.1109/educon.2017.7943091 dblp:conf/educon/TaylorMHTRJD17 fatcat:jfdnup4q2ngbdh3bg3cn6xn7hq