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Leveraging the Human Factors Discipline for Better Cybersecurity Outcomes: A Roundtable Discussion

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Margaret Cunningham, Calvin Nobles, Nikki Robinson, Julie Haney

Abstract

"The Human Factor" department co-editor Julie Haney recently spoke with three human factors experts to get to the bottom of what the oft-misunderstood human factors discipline actually is, how the cybersecurity community and organizations can benefit from human factors engineering, and how to create a pipeline of professionals with both human factors and cybersecurity expertise.
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IEEE Security & Privacy
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Journals

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Keywords

cybersecurity, human factors
Usability and human factors and Cybersecurity and privacy

Citation

Cunningham, M. , Nobles, C. , Robinson, N. and Haney, J. (2024), Leveraging the Human Factors Discipline for Better Cybersecurity Outcomes: A Roundtable Discussion, IEEE Security & Privacy, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=958520 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created December 1, 2024, Updated January 31, 2025
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