Paper 2026/490
Towards Modeling Cybersecurity Behavior of Humans in Organizations
Abstract
We undertake a comprehensive and structured synthesis of the drivers of human behavior in cybersecurity, focusing specifically on people within organizations (i.e., especially employees in companies), and integrate key concepts such as awareness, security culture, and usability into a coherent theoretical framework. This model is then compared with several relevant behavioral models that fundamentally represent drivers of human behavior. Additionally, we discuss how this theoretical framework can help the domain of agentic AI security: We argue that as AI systems increasingly act as autonomous agents within organizations and based on natural language processing, they also exhibit vulnerabilities analogous to human behavioral risks. Consequently, we propose that this human-centric model offers a blueprint for developing additional security strategies against manipulation attacks targeting AI agents.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Human BehaviorAwarenessAgentic AIAI Security
- Contact author(s)
- klaas ole kuertz @ haw-kiel de
- History
- 2026-03-11: approved
- 2026-03-09: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2026/490
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2026/490,
author = {Klaas Ole Kürtz},
title = {Towards Modeling Cybersecurity Behavior of Humans in Organizations},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2026/490},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/490}
}
