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European Cybersecurity Atlas

Human aspects

The interplay between ethics, relevant laws, regulations, policies, standards, psychology and the human being within the cybersecurity realm.

The subdomains for this knowledge domain are:

  • Accessibility
  • Usability
  • Human-related risks/threats (social engineering, insider misuse, etc.)
  • Socio-technical security
  • Enhancing risk perception
  • Psychological models and cognitive processes
  • User acceptance of security policies and technologies
  • Automating security functionality
  • Non-intrusive security
  • Privacy concerns, behaviours, and practices
  • Computer ethics and security
  • Transparent security
  • Cybersecurity profiling
  • Cyberpsychology
  • Gamification
  • Forensic cyberpsychology
  • Security visualization
  • Human aspects of trust
  • Human perception of cybersecurity
  • History of cybersecurity