Examining the efficacy of decoy-based and psychological cyber deception

KJ Ferguson-Walter, MM Major, CK Johnson… - 30th USENIX security …, 2021 - usenix.org
The threat of cyber attacks is a growing concern across the world, leading to an increasing
need for sophisticated cyber defense techniques. Attackers often rely on direct observation …

Cyber expert feedback: Experiences, expectations, and opinions about cyber deception

KJ Ferguson-Walter, MM Major, CK Johnson… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human behavior is a critical, yet under-studied topic in cybersecurity. Among the techniques
used for cyber defense, for cyber deception, a better understanding of human perception …

Oppositional human factors in cybersecurity: A preliminary analysis of affective states

KJ Ferguson-Walter, RS Gutzwiller… - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for cyber defense research is growing as more cyber-attacks are directed at critical
infrastructure and other sensitive networks. Traditionally, the focus has been on hardening …

Exploratory Analysis of Decision-Making Biases of Professional Red Teamers in a Cyber-Attack Dataset

RS Gutzwiller, H Rheem… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Attacker psychology is currently under-examined in cybersecurity research. A prior, large-
scale study sought to understand attackers' behavior by testing both technological and …

Informing autonomous deception systems with cyber expert performance data

M Major, B Souza, J DiVita… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The performance of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in practice depends on the realism
and correctness of the data, models, and feedback (labels or rewards) provided to the …

Frustration, Confusion, Surprise, Confidence, And Self-Doubt: Cyber Operators' Affects During A Realistic Experiment

RS Gutzwiller, M Gilbert, TJ Drescher… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we examine data from a complex two-day experiment with professional cyber
red teamers to determine what creates, or contributes, to affective states that may further …

[PDF][PDF] Responsible Integration of Behavioral Science in Computer Science Research and Development.

E Niedbala, K Ferguson-Walter, D Lafon - HICSS, 2022 - researchgate.net
Cross disciplinary research is essential for technological innovation. For decades, computer
science (Comp Sci) has leveraged behavior science (Behav Sci) research to create …