The course aims to provide you with an understanding of how human factors can be applied in designing human-centric solutions to complex problems in the cybersecurity context.

In particular, the course will take a multi-disciplinary approach to provide you the required knowledge and skills to identify and analyse human behaviour in relation to cyber security and identify how to design and development of solutions considering them. You will understand how humans represent value but also risk to an organization. You will develop expertise that enables them to critique cybersecurity tools considering the trade-off between usability and security. The topics covered in this course include the need for human-centric cybersecurity; human decision-making and behaviour change relevant to the cybersecurity context; social engineering attacks; usability and security trade-off; ethics and policy; and, human-centred cybersecurity in the age of emerging technologies such as the advancement of AI.