Corporate Threat Actor Psychological Profiles: Towards a Formal Ontology for Automatic Detection of Psychological Risk Factors

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Presented at SecureWorldCharlotte 2020 by

Tam Nguyen

Human psychology plays an important role in organizational performance. However, understanding our employees is a difficult task, due to issues such as psychological complexities, unpredictable dynamics, and the lack of data. Decision support systems with artificial intelligence can be a scalable solution, but such systems require a human-designed ontology for Symbolic AI reasoning. This talk aims to provide a list of corporate threat actor psychological profiles including those of insider hackers; emphasizing the similarities and differences between them, on which, future ontologies can be built for automatic detection of related psychological risk factors.Take-away:1. Definitions of Corporate Threat Actors2. Their profiles based on clinical psychology research3. How are they compared to each other4. A sample ontology for moving forward