5 papers
Indirect Geoeconomic Influence: A Switching Dynamical Systems Framework for Mechanism Design
Nikolos Gurney, Boxi Fu, Soham Hans +1
We develop a formal framework for analyzing indirect geoeconomic influence. The influencing state (sender) does not attempt to change a target nation's policy directly. Instead, th…
Detecting Ambiguity Aversion in Cyberattack Behavior to Inform Cognitive Defense Strategies
Stephan Carney, Soham Hans, Sofia Hirschmann +4
Adversaries (hackers) attempting to infiltrate networks frequently face uncertainty in their operational environments. This research explores the ability to model and detect when t…
Security Logs to ATT&CK Insights: Leveraging LLMs for High-Level Threat Understanding and Cognitive Trait Inference
Soham Hans, Stacy Marsella, Sophia Hirschmann +1
Understanding adversarial behavior in cybersecurity has traditionally relied on high-level intelligence reports and manual interpretation of attack chains. However, real-time defen…
Risk Psychology & Cyber-Attack Tactics
Rubens Kim, Stephan Carney, Yvonne Fonken +5
We examine whether measured cognitive processes predict cyber-attack behavior. We analyzed data that included psychometric scale responses and labeled attack behaviors from cyberse…
Quantifying Loss Aversion in Cyber Adversaries via LLM Analysis
Soham Hans, Nikolos Gurney, Stacy Marsella +1
Understanding and quantifying human cognitive biases from empirical data has long posed a formidable challenge, particularly in cybersecurity, where defending against unknown adver…