Human factors and cyber policy

TA#2 Human Factors and Cyber Policy
CSEC 620
April 27,2013

Table of Content
IntroductionCopyright, threats and ownership of intellectual property
-Important Security Issues
-Recommended Policy Controls
-How/Why Human Factors Influence Policy
Meta-Data collected and used by the Private sector and Public sector
-Important Security Issues
-Recommended Policy Controls
-How/Why Human Factors Influence Policy
Zero Day Exploits employed for economic or military advantage
-Important Security Issues
-Recommended Policy Controls
-How/Why Human Factors Influence Policy
Vulnerability assessments for Mobile Devices in the BYOD environment
-Important Security Issues
-Recommended Policy Controls
-How/Why Human Factors Influence Policy
Conclusion

Introduction
Human factors can influence policy choices for both domestic and international cybersecurity issues. What will be discussed in this paper is how human factors can affect four selected cybersecurity issues. The four-cybersecurity issues selected are zero-day exploits, meta-data collected and used by private and public sectors, vulnerability assessments for mobile devices in the BYOD environment, and threats to copy right and ownership of intellectual property. This paper will go into details on important security issues, recommended policy controls, and how or why human factors can influence each of the recommended policy controls for each of the four selected topics mentioned.
Copyright, threats and ownership of intellectual property
Important Security Issues
With the proliferation of 3-D Printers and the availability of copyrighted materials posted online, there is an additional facet to the current debate surrounding copyright and ownership of intellectual property. Piracy of digital media such as music and videos has been a long-standing issue since the 1990’s with Napster and similar peer-to-peer file sharing programs.
There are six ways that intellectual property theft harms

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