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 cyber security context.

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

If you are enrolled in this course as a component of your Bachelor Honours Program, your overall mark will contribute to the calculation of the Weighted Average Mark (WAM).
See the WAM information web page for more information.