‘The CyberPsychology of Cyber Security’World Cyber Security Technology Research Summit 2014

Mary Aiken Director RCSI CyberPsychology Research CentreFellow RCSI Institute of LeadershipResearch Fellow School of Law Middlesex UniversityFellow IBM Network Science Research Center

RCSI Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Coláiste Ríoga na Máinleá in Éirinn

What is CyberPsychology?

• Field within applied psychology

• Internet psychology, virtual environments, AI & IA, gaming, digital convergence, social media, mobile telephones and networking devices

• 30 peer-reviewed journals: 1,000 articles

• CyberPsychology: exponential growth due to continued rapid acceleration of Internet technologies and the ‘unprecedentedly pervasive and profound influence of the internet on human beings’ (Yan, 2012)

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Psychology of Cyberspace

• Interest in cyberspace: cognitive, social, educational, organisational, personality, clinical and experimental psychologists.

• Traditional ‘real world theories’ – will they suffice? do we need to modify - or develop new ones?

• Interdisciplinary scholars are

crystalising new ideas and moving towards conquering a new scientific frontier

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‘State & Trait’ in Cyberspace

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• Anonymity (Joinson, 2001)

• Online disinhibition effect (Suler, 2004)

• Cyber immersion (Takatalo et al., 2008)

• Cyber presence (Riva et al., 2007)

• Self-presentation online (Gibbs et al., 2006)

• Privacy (McMahon & Aiken, 2014; Barnes, 2006)

• Escalation online (White & Horvitz, 2002)

• Altruism (Adar & Huberman, 2000)

• Trust (Putnam, 2000)

• Identity (Turkle, 1999; Gross & Acquisti, 2005)

Cyber Security

CyberPsychology: Delivering insight at the human/technology interface

Privacy Environment Trust

Needs Habits & EmotionsIdentity Presence

Anonymity Intelligence Amplification

Socialisation ResilienceCommunication Personality

Ethics

Big DataRegulation

Artificial IntelligenceMobile Cyber Defence

IOT BYODNetwork Security

Malware RiskAuthentication

Ubiquitous CitiesBiometrics

Human Technology

CyberPsychology

Key Perspectives

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Consideration of Cyber Security in the context of CyberPsychological factors

1. Cyber security & ‘factoring in the human’ - Person vs. User - State & Trait - Real World vs. Virtual World Self (org. insider threat) - Organizational CyberPsychology: Hierarchical vs. Networked (zero day scenario) - Cyber Behavioral Profiling – NB Motive (primary & secondary gains)

2. Cyberspace as an environment - Immersive vs. Transactional - Need to update/revise definitions? Privacy, Identity, Trust, Security, Resilience - Minimisation of Status and Authority in Cyberspace 3. Cyber technologies - Artificial Intelligence (A.I) v’s Intelligence Amplification (I.A) - Scientific Creativity - Cyber Ethics / Cyber-Tort

Research Vision

• Cyberpsychology approach: understanding new norms of behaviour online

• Theoretically profound, experimentally rigorous, developmentally longitudinal, technically sophisticated to achieve longlasting positive societal effects

• Adhere to principles of Virtual Research Methodology

Our vision is that the CyberPsychology Research Centre will become a global leader in delivering research and insight at the intersection of psychology and technology

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