The Human Element in Cybersecurity

Description from DukeHub

This course will examine the challenges associated with humans using, managing, and manipulating socio-technical systems with cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Technology and policy defenses and mitigations will be explored as well as societal, ethical, and legal implications of cybersecurity interventions.

Skills

• policy and lawdescription: "policy" and 1 more

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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