Psychology is a social science that is valuable to cybersecurity for understanding the human mind and behavior in areas such as social media, online, gaming, cybercrime, and cyberbullying.

Jenkins, Jesse. NJIT Unveils New Jersey’s First Cyberpsychology Program. (2019).

NJIT Unveils New Jersey’s First Cyberpsychology Program

Sociology studies human interactions and in cybersecurity this is important in understanding how to protect organizations from social engineering techniques.

West, Colony. Social Engineering and how it affects your coverage – assuming you’re covered at all. (2025).

Social Engineering and how it affects your coverage | Colony West

With growing cybercrime problems, criminology is needed to understand cybercrimes so that they can be prevented and policies can be implemented.

Tripathi, Shambhavi. Cyber Crime and Cybersecurity: An overview (2019).

Cyber Crime and Cyber Security : An overview – iPleaders

With the amount of data that needs protection, the intersection of political science is important to create laws and contribute to the ongoing global warfare online.

Adonis, Abid. International Law on Cybersecurity in the Age of Digital Sovereignty. (2020).

International Law on Cyber Security in the Age of Digital Sovereignty

Economics is important to cybersecurity because lost/stolen data can be costly. This discipline can help to provide decision-making regarding security and privacy as financial decisions. Cybersecurity is often under the finance department.

Stratford, Heather. Economics of Cybersecurity. (2018).

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