Cybercrimeology1 Jul 2025

The Human in_security - deception, weapons, crime & culture

About our guest:

Dr. Iain Reid

Senior Lecturer in Cybercrime

University of Portsmouth

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/iain-reid

Topics discussed in this episode:

How principles of military deception map onto cybersecurity
Why the phrase “the human is the weakest link” oversimplifies risk
What it’s like to research developer perspectives on secure software
The psychology of decision-making in phishing attacks
How time pressure influences risky digital behaviour
The limits of “security culture” as an organizational solution
How cyber deception fits within defence-in-depth

Papers or resources mentioned:

Reid, I., Okeke-Ramos, A., & Serafin, M. (2024). Exploring the ethics of cyber deception technologies for defensive cyber deception. In P. Bednar, J. Kävrestad, E. Bergström, M. Rajanen, H. V. Hult, A. M. Braccini, A. S. Islind, & F. Zaghloul (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in Information Systems (STPIS 2024) (pp. 140-148). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3857

Whaley, B. (2007). Stratagem: deception and surprise in war. Artech.

Rowe, N.C., Rrushi, J. (2016). Measuring Deception. In: Introduction to Cyberdeception. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41187-3_11

Ashenden, D., Ollis, G., & Reid, I. (2022, October). Dancing, not Wrestling: Moving from Compliance to Concordance for Secure Software Development. In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 1-9).

Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace

https://pariscall.international

Other

I would like to thank Dudley the French Bulldog for the invaluable (unavoidable) contribution to this episode.

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