"IARPA Kicks off Cybersecurity Research Focused on Attackers' Psychology"
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has launched a program that, for the first time, directly focuses on the psychology of cyberattackers. Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND) aims to use attackers' innate decision-making biases, cognitive vulnerabilities, and other human limitations to combat their attacks. Although attackers often exploit human errors, most cyber defenses do not exploit attackers' cognitive weaknesses. ReSCIND seeks to flip this pattern. IARPA will engineer a new cyber technology by combining traditional cybersecurity practices with the emerging field of cyberpsychology. According to Dr. Kimberly Ferguson-Walter, ReSCIND Program Manager, the program will allow the Intelligence Community's (IC) cyber defenders to penalize attackers with the costs of wasted time and effort, thereby delaying and potentially thwarting attacks, as well as exposing the operators behind them more quickly. This article continues to discuss the ReSCIND program.
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