cognitive bias and security vulnerabilities the psychology of software engineering neil dixley

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Cognitive Bias and Security Vulnerabilities THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NEIL DIXLEY

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Page 1: Cognitive Bias and Security Vulnerabilities THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NEIL DIXLEY

Cognitive Bias and Security VulnerabilitiesTHE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

NEIL DIXLEY

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Cognitive

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Security failures are cognitive failures

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Two systems one brain

AutomaticIntuitiveInstinctivePrimaryRapidBlind

ConsideredEffortfulFocusedSecondarySlowerLazy

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Cognitive Bias

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Anchoring

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Loss Aversion

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Principle of Authority

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Mitigating cognitive failures

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Threat Modelling

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Check Lists

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Security First

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Further information

BBC Horizon – How we really make decisions

Wikipedia – List of Cognitive Biases

Cognitive Dissonance – the book

Cognitive Dissonance – the podcast

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Thank you

Twitter : @neildixley

www.neildixley.com

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