The Psychology of Cybersecurity

A research based guide to the human side of cyber risk. The Psychology of Cybersecurity explains how cognitive bias and behavior shape decisions made by hackers, defenders, users, and leaders.

The Psychology of Cybersecurity offers a fresh and much needed examination of the human element in cybersecurity. Singh and Zheng show that many critical decisions in security are shaped not by technology but by cognitive bias, perception, and human behavior. Blending two decades of lived cybersecurity experience with academic research, the authors expl…