Featured Publications by NSA Researchers

Overview

NSA Research is the largest in-house research organization in the Intelligence Community, with experts in fields such as mathematics, computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, physics, neuroscience,
and linguistics. Our researchers are active in their fields within and outside of NSA. The following bibliography lists other publications for which one or more of the authors are NSA researchers.
 

Jan. 3, 2024

Adversarial Cognitive Engineering (ACE) and Defensive Cybersecurity: Leveraging Attacker Decision-Making Heuristics in a Cybersecurity Task

Chelsea Johnson, Richard Van Tassel, Temmie Shade, Andi Rogers, Kimberly Ferguson-Walter

Jan. 3, 2024

Physiological Response to Cyber and Psychological Deception

Nicholas Wymbs, Maxine Major, Ryan Gabrys, Kimberly Ferguson-Walter

Nov. 21, 2023

Generating Experiences for Autonomous Network Defense

Andres Molina-Markham, Luis Robaina, Akash Trivedi, Derek Tsui, Ahmad Ridley

Oct. 25, 2023

Frustration, Confusion, Surprise, Confidence, and Self-Doubt: Cyber Operators’ Affects during a Realistic Experiment

Robert Guzwiller, Madison Gilbert, T. J. Drescher, Kimberly Ferguson-Walter, Noella Mikanda, Craig Johnson, Dakota Scott, 

Oct. 27, 2022

Investigating cyber attacker team cognition

Johnson C, Ferguson-Walter K, Gutzwiller R, Scott D, Cook N