Although advances have been made in designing and implementing cyber security systems, human factors often still lead to their complete failure. To do justice to the benefits that can arise from the intended usage of technology applications, the focus should shift to keeping the users of the Internet safe from harm that may be caused by cyber security events. Particularly with mobile devices being pushed into the centre of technology design, the current data centric Internet should adapt to focus especially on the user aspect ( Conti and Passarella, 2018). The Internet belongs to its users with technology pervasive in most application domains, security considerations coming as an afterthought and usability of the security interventions seldom considered. The aim of this survey is to provide both users and system designers with insights into the workings and applications of human centric cyber security. Particularly, the focus is on studies that specifically illustrate the shift in paradigm from functional and usage centred cyber security, to user centred cyber security by considering the human aspects of users. We explore the increasing complexity of cyber security with a wider perspective, defining user, usage and usability (3U’s) as three essential components for cyber security consideration, and classify developmental efforts through existing research works based on the human centric security design, implementation and deployment of these components. In this paper, we survey advancements made in the development and design of the human centric cyber security domain.

Despite much work being done in the field of cyber security, most of the focus seems to be concentrated on system usage. The effectiveness of cyber security measures are often questioned in the wake of hard hitting security events.

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