Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Cyber deception remains a powerful tactic to provide benefit for cyber defenders.Its success stems from innate cognitive vulnerabilities of cyber attackers which can be leveraged through how information is changed and presented on the systems they are attacking.Cyber deception has been combined with artificial intelligence and has been studied through human subjects experiments (HSR).Cyberpsychology and other human aspects of cyber have been increasingly included and examined within the research community.This minitrack was one of the first publishing options for researchers working in this area and continues to receive more high-quality research paper submissions than can be accepted.This year, there was an increase in submissions focused on studying cognitive vulnerabilities in attackers and examining how that knowledge can be used to create more impactful defenses to secure our networks and systems.Cognitive biases studied in controlled experimentation this year and shown to be relevant to cyber attackers included: Base Rate Neglect, Availability Bias, Sunk Cost Fallacy, and Loss Aversion.The five papers that will be presented this year are at HICSS-59: "Agentic AI for Cyber Deception: A Gestalt Game-Theoretic Approach to Defensing Against Botnet DDoS Attacks" introduces a principled framework for modeling and optimizing agentic AI workflows for cyber deception.
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7154356997