Cybersecurity is very complex and is a major topic in corporations to ensure they have efficient teams and stakeholders who are familiar with the field making quick critical decisions on behalf of the company. The article “Executive Decision-makers: A Scenario-based Approach to Assessing Organizational Cyber Risk Perception” is a great article that shows examples of principles of social science and much more! The article uses the principles of psychology and criminology through different potential risk scenario responses. In the article, it questions how leadership responds to ransomware, control system malfunction, power and connectivity outages, nation-state disruptions, and the problems these bring corporations in the media. The research was done through scenario responses that were done on Zoom and were monitored by an observer who also reviewed and gave feedback to the participants. Participants were chosen due to what their input is on cybersecurity issues within their companies no matter whether it was a large-scaled company or small or your position title. In the article, I noticed some similar concepts from my cybersecurity and social science class. For example, in my class we learned about how companies can be affected by attacks and the article states “ They noted that there needs to be a communication plan for engaging with the media, where this can require careful planning.” This means communication with media on the situation is just as important as trying to solve how the attacker was successful due to how consumers get their information from the media so for the company to not be affected on a consumer scale they must say the correct things. Overall this article gives a well-researched perspective for a person in the cyber field and a consumer on cyber complexity, what questions are asked regarding the attack, and how leadership assesses business procedures after the attack.

citations:

Simon Parkin, Kristen Kuhn, Siraj A Shaikh, Executive decision-makers: a scenario-based approach to assessing organizational cyber-risk perception, Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2023, tyad018

 https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article/9/1/tyad018/7246580?searchresult=1