Moses Moore
2024/10/02
Article review #1

Cyberattacks & threats influence on attitudes towards cybersecurity policies

Introduction

The principles of social studies look at various different interactions of people and look at
various different disciplines within the field. For example psychology is a discipline of social
sciences, and psychology plays a major role in cybersecurity. The threat and actual cyberattack
can have a psychological toll on citizens of America or the certain company that was a victim to
the cybercrime. In this article review we are going to see how a writing by Keren L G Snider,
Ryan Shandler, Shay Zandani, Daphna Canetti expresses the physiological side of cybersecurity.

Application

The article I reviewed looked at how threats and cyberattacks influence attitudes towards
cybersecurity policies. The question posed was: Does exposure to cyberattacks influence public
support for intrusive cybersecurity policies?(Keren L G Snider, Ryan Shandler, Shay Zandani,
Daphna Canetti 2021). They conducted a randomized survey on 1,022 Israeli participants
showing a television broadcast (scripted and simulated) of lethal or non lethal cyber attacks on
their nation’s infrastructure. The results varied between the two types of attacks. People exposed
to the non lethal attacks supported an oversight, while, the people exposed to the lethal attacks
supported that the government relay information of a lethal cyberattack to the citizens. Findings
suggest that exposure to cyberattacks leads to greater support for stringent cybersecurity
regulations, through a mechanism of threat perception (Keren L G Snider, Ryan Shandler, Shay
Zandani, Daphna Canetti 2021).

Physiological side

Cyber attacks can have a physiological effect as we saw from the experiments the article
explained. People exposed to a nonlethal attack support stringent policies like the people
exposed to lethal cyber attacks. This is because of victimization, consequences can vary
depending on the type of attack, race, gender, and age. For example the consequences of a
victim experiencing cyberbullying isn’t the same as a victim experiencing cyber fraud. We saw
how fear of a threat changed the consequence of the victims (Israeli citizens) by demanding less
or more stringent policies.

conclusion

The fear of a threat can change the consequences of victimization. As the study showed
there were two different responses to two different types of threat. The physiological
consequences can vary based upon multiple factors but the major contributing factors in this
experiment was the type of attack, and the stringent policies the public supported.

Snider, K. L. G., Shandler, R., Zandani, S., & Canetti, D. (2021, October 7). Cyberattacks, cyber
threats, and attitudes toward cybersecurity policies. Journal of Cybersecurity. Retrieved October
2, 2024, from Cyberattacks, cyber threats, and attitudes toward cybersecurity policies | Journal of
Cybersecurity | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Cyberattacks, cyber threats, and attitudes toward cybersecurity policies | Journal of
Cybersecurity | Oxford Academic (oup.com)