ABSTRACT
With all the effort going into trying to ensure that our cyberenvironment is safe from attack, we have dedicated considerable resources to the development of algorithmic methods, such as data encryption, in order to provide stronger defenses against various forms of cyberattack. However, on the other hand, most security researchers recognize that although our mathematical, computer science, and engineering approaches to building such defenses are essential, at the same time, we tend to pay very little attention to the other critical component of trying to defend a cyberenvironment: the human behavioral aspects of both the potential attackers and defenders. In this chapter, we hope to motivate both persons interested in the more algorithmic approach to cybersecurity and those who understand the human behavioral aspects to develop a common basis of understanding in the discipline. At this point, we will describe a pathway for a student body that is (a) a mix of computer science/engineering students and behavioral science students, (b) a primarily computer science/engineering class, and (c) a primarily behavioral science class.
