Summary
There is a growing tension between the collaborative, open nature of academia and national security risks. Current cybersecurity threat models fail to predict or prevent actions most likely to occur in research settings and don't account for the social challenges of research security. Research security frameworks such as NSPM-33 emphasize compliance and traditional risk assessment but often overlook the context-specific human behaviors that lead to security breaches. Effective research security requires an approach that accounts for the human factors that drive researcher decision making and
