Module content:

This module combines two ACM knowledge areas (Human Security and Societal Security).

• Foundations (human communication theories and its pathology).
• Identity Management (authentication of people and devices, from the perspective of the user).
• Social Engineering (techniques, mechanics, dynamics).
• Misleading users (UI threat surfaces, spoofing).
• Infrastructure and device misuse from user behaviour perspective (intentional and unintentional system misuse, hacking, naïve behaviour).
• Enforcement and rules of behaviour (theories of enforcement, sanctioning, tools).
• Risk perception and human communication (formal and informal norms, overconfidence, illusions of control).
• Cyber hygiene (password creation, password storage, mitigation tools, identifying levels of privacy settings).
• Human security factors
• Cyber vulnerabilities and threats awareness (warning signs of employee vulnerabilities, identity theft awareness).
• Personal tracking and digital footprint (location tracking, network tracking, personal device tracking, social media presence, Open Source Intelligence gathering).
• Social theories of privacy (theories that emphasize interacting with other people as opposed to organizations).
• Usability and user experience (The impact of Usability on the security and privacy of a system, users’ online disclosure decisions and behaviours).