This document discusses a multidisciplinary perspective on cybersecurity including human geography, psychology, and political science. It explores concepts of space versus place and how places produce meaning and behavior. The document summarizes the Stanford Prison Experiment which showed how roles and environments can influence participant's behavior. It also discusses how cyberspace can be viewed as places with meanings and behaviors, and how securing cyberspace involves changing the meanings and nature of online places through transgression.

1. EmilTan
Team Lead, Co-Founder
http://edgis-security.org
@EdgisSecurity
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on
Cybersecurity

2. Multidisciplinary Perspective
 Human Geography
 Psychology
 Political Science
 Behavioural Economics

3. Spatial Theory
 Space v. Place
 What is place?
 Building or a location. Geographical coordination point.
 “This is not a place for me.” “Know your place.”
 Sense of belonging
 Illogical; Neither are they rules or laws
 Expected behaviour
 Objective facts v. Subjective feelings
 Centre of meaning v. Context for action (interpretation)
 Society produces place and place reproduces society

4. Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE)
 Philip G. Zimbardo, Aug 1971
 Correctional Officer v. Numbered Prisoners
 7 – 14 days, $15 per day
 SPE stopped after 6 days
International Journal of Criminology & Penology
Website: http://prisonexp.org/

5. Observations in SPE
 Prisoners’ Conversation – 90% are prison-related issues
 Parole Interviews –Willing to forfeit the money
 Guards – Mr. Correctional Officer
 Hellmann’s Little Experiment –
 “I want to see what kind of abuse people can take before they
start objecting. No one said anything to me.”
 Participants produce the prison and the prison reproduces
the participants

6. Cyberspace v. Cyberplace
 Place-ness of Cyberspace
 Bad guys exploit how users read the cyberspace
 Expectation
 Behavioural
 Trust

7. Securing the Cyberspace
 Transgression – Connecting Place with Meaning
 Implications
 Meaning of the place will change
 The place itself will change
 The new meaning will be their meaning