Detecting Ambiguity Aversion in Cyberattack Behavior to Inform Cognitive Defense Strategies

Adversaries hackers attempting to infiltrate networks frequently face uncertainty in their operational environments. This research explores the ability to model and detect when they exhibit ambiguity aversion, a cognitive bias reflecting a preference for known versus unknown probabilities. We...

Risk Psychology and Cyber-Attack Tactics

We examine whether measured cognitive processes predict cyber-attack behavior. We analyzed data that included psychometric scale responses and labeled attack behaviors from cybersecurity professionals who conducted red-team operations against a simulated enterprise network. We employed multilevel...