Research Focus Areas
Cyber Threat Psychology research focus areas
CSA Swiss Chapter Research Topics
October 29, 2025

- The psychological motivations of attackers (the “Supply Side”).
- Their origins from personal conditions, social context and behavior.
- Ways of interception at the “Supply Side”: identify developing personal conditions which may lead persons to succumb to influences or personal conditions to become hackers.
- Potential approaches how to influence behaviours of attackers to turn them into positive constructive contribution rather than negative harmful destruction.
- The transmission mechanisms: subversion, deception, poisoning.
- Potential behavioural change at “Receiver Side” to understand the background of hacktivism, to develop and to apply communication, social, emotional awareness and better detection and response.
- Changing the incentive patterns and mindsets of both the “Supply Side “ and the “Receiver Side” to reduce attacks and impact.