Cyber Education

: In this chapter, the authors delve into the context of cybersecurity and explore the concept of security mindset in relation to cyber education and John Dewey’s “democratic ideal.” The chapter proposes John Dewey’s robust theory of habit in Human Nature and Conduct (1922) as a grounding foundation for conceptualizing a core component of security mindset, namely the human capacity for intelligent adaptation and growth within ever-changing environments. In submitting this linkage between Dewey’s conception of habit and security mindset, the author’s purpose is more than to advance Deweyan habit as an intelligible enrichment to current cybersecurity ideas for how to manage threats. Going further, they forward the connection between Deweyan habit and security mindset to extend the kind of foundation necessary for advancing cybersecurity’s ability to meet diverse and evolving cybersecurity threats through cyber education. With this, a process of disruption that leads to the subsequent reorganization of habit can bring into view simultaneously the threats to democracy as well as the process of democracy itself.