Human Factors in Cyber Security. 3 credits

Catalog description

This course explores complex human roles in designing resilient/secured systems to meet the products and services necessary for evolving and dynamic technology demands. This research-based course focuses on existing and proposed research spanning studies of the interaction between humans, machines, and technology to develop products and systems that are secure and trustworthy throughout the system engineering process. Topics can cover many fields within Cyber Security Engineering to ensure proper human factors are incorporated (such as design, manufacturing, assembly, measurement, testing, and modeling). The course will address details, including perception, cognition, memory, situation awareness, decision-making, stress, automation, human-computer display, and interaction design principles. Students are expected to work individually or in a group on applying security functions to design a selected human factor-related project. Offered by Cyber Security Engineering . May not be repeated for credit.