Human Factors in Cybersecurity: A field-tested framework for designing resilient, human-centered cybersecurity systems
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing, 2026
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- Title
- Human Factors in Cybersecurity: A field-tested framework for designing resilient, human-centered cybersecurity systems
- Author
- Nikki Robinson; Calvin Nobles
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1806118335
- ISBN 13
- 9781806118335
Design for resilience in a digital world and explore how integrating human factors into cybersecurity reduces errors, fortifies defenses, and aligns protection strategies with actual human behavior.
Key Features
- Offers frameworks to reduce security fatigue, mitigate burnout, and manage mental workloads across cybersecurity teams
- Get practical strategies for building security systems that align with human behaviors and limitations
- Bridges human factors engineering with modern cybersecurity challenges for actionable insights
Book Description
Cybersecurity isn’t just a technical problem; it’s a human one. Human Factors in Cybersecurity equips you to tackle today’s digital threats by designing systems that respect how cybersecurity professionals actually think, behave, and make decisions.
Despite billions spent on advanced technologies, human behavior remains cybersecurity’s greatest vulnerability. This book shows how to design defenses that work with people, not against them. Blending cybersecurity operations expertise with human factors science, it reveals that security failures are not inevitable. They’re design failures. Inside, you’ll learn how to shift from user-blaming policies to human-centered security engineering. Discover how to predict and influence user behavior, design controls that support cognitive realities, and embed human factors strategies at scale. Through actionable frameworks, real-world examples, and clear guidance, you will learn to reduce errors, build trust, and design systems resilient to human limitations.
Authored by experts in cybersecurity, machine learning, and human factors engineering, this book delivers the interdisciplinary insight needed to lead the shift toward systems that are not only secure but genuinely usable. It transforms human factors from cybersecurity’s biggest blind spot into its most powerful driver of resilience.
What you will learn
- Align cybersecurity design with authentic human behaviors and cognitive patterns
- Reduce user errors through actionable, human-centered design strategies
- Build trust by addressing cognitive and social user needs
- Improve incident response through human-aware operational methods
- Apply cyberpsychology principles to predict, influence, and secure user decisions
- Implement Human Factors Engineering-as-a-Service (HFEaaS) for scalable, human-centric solutions
- Use human factors analysis to uncover root causes of incidents and design out human error
Who this book is for
This book is for cybersecurity architects, SOC leaders, CISOs, researchers, and educators who know technical controls aren’t enough. If you're dealing with user errors, team burnout, or security fatigue, this book shows how to design human-aware systems that reduce failures and build resilience. Focused on practical frameworks, it helps professionals turn human vulnerabilities into strengths across security operations and architectures.
Table of Contents
- The Human Element and Cybersecurity
- Current Challenges in Cybersecurity
- Rethinking Incident Response through the lens of Human Factors
- Human Factors in Security Operations
- Human Factors in Vulnerability Management
- Human Factors Engineering-as-a-Service
- Addressing Stress, Fatigue, and Burnout in Cybersecurity
- Cyberpsychology in Cybersecurity
- Benefits of Human Factors Analysis and Classification System in Cybersecurity
- Identification and Technology Strategies of Human Factors in Cybersecurity
- Implementation Path for Human Factors in Cybersecurity
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About the Author
Nikki Robinson, DSc, PhD is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Manager for AI and Platform Development at IBM. She is also an Adjunct Professor at UMGC. She holds a DSc in Cyber Security and a PhD in Human Factors, blending her 17-year IT and cybersecurity operations career with her academic pursuits. She has written two previous technical books, Mind the Tech Gap and Effective Vulnerability Management. She holds numerous IT and cybersecurity certifications, along with multiple research publications and patents in the cybersecurity space.
Calvin Nobles, PhD, serves as the Portfolio Vice President and Dean of the School of Cybersecurity and Information Technology at the University of Maryland Global Campus. A retired U.S. Navy officer with over 25 years of distinguished service, he brings deep expertise shaped by leadership roles in both national defense, the financial services, and higher education sectors. Dr. Nobles completed prestigious cybersecurity policy fellowships at Harvard's Belfer Center, and the New America Think Tank. He holds several doctoral degrees in human factors, offensive cybersecurity engineering, and business administration, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to advancing secure, human-centered digital systems.
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