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2017-11-20
Halevi, Tzipora, Memon, Nasir, Lewis, James, Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam, Arora, Sumit, Dagar, Nikita, Aloul, Fadi, Chen, Jay.  2016.  Cultural and Psychological Factors in Cyber-security. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services. :318–324.

Increasing cyber-security presents an ongoing challenge to security professionals. Research continuously suggests that online users are a weak link in information security. This research explores the relationship between cyber-security and cultural, personality and demographic variables. This study was conducted in four different countries and presents a multi-cultural view of cyber-security. In particular, it looks at how behavior, self-efficacy and privacy attitude are affected by culture compared to other psychological and demographics variables (such as gender and computer expertise). It also examines what kind of data people tend to share online and how culture affects these choices. This work supports the idea of developing personality based UI design to increase users' cyber-security. Its results show that certain personality traits affect the user cyber-security related behavior across different cultures, which further reinforces their contribution compared to cultural effects.

2017-04-24
Tamrakar, Anjila, Russell, Justin D., Ahmed, Irfan, Richard, III, Golden G., Weems, Carl F..  2016.  SPICE: A Software Tool for Bridging the Gap Between End-user's Insecure Cyber Behavior and Personality Traits. Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. :124–126.

End users are prone to insecure cyber behavior that may lead them to compromise the integrity, availability or confidentiality of their computer systems. For instance, replying to a phishing email may compromise an end user's login credentials. Identifying tendency toward insecure cyber behavior is critically important to improve cyber security posture and thesis of this paper is that the susceptibility of end-users to be a victim of a cyber-attack may be predicted using personality traits such as trait anxiety and callousness. This paper presents an easily configurable, script-based software tool to explore the relationships between the personality traits and insecure cyber behaviors of end users. The software utilizes well-established cognitive methods (such as dot probe) to identify a number of personality traits for a user and further allows researchers to design and conduct experiments through customizable scripting to study the endusers' insecure cyber behaviors. The software also collects fine-grained data on users for analysis.