Cyberpsychology can improve cybersecurity leadership in higher education

Cyberpsychology has grown exponentially in supporting researchers understanding of the significance of human behavior in correlation with social media technology as a tool for business communication and engagement. Research coupled with quantitative and qualitative statistics, notes that cyberpsychology is woven in social media and is a key factor of social engineering. Additional research conveys cyberbullying is a key area of importance aligning with cyberpsychology, which helps researchers begin to understand the motive behind cybercriminals malicious activities. However, there is limited research providing the correlation between the role cyberpsychology plays in cybersecurity leadership for these institutions and the malicious attitude cybercriminals have that invoke this human behavior. Therefore, this research enables readers to comprehend the nexus regarding the utilization of qualitative grounded theory lite research in providing answers to three questions. First question is, what role does cyberpsychology play in correlation with institutions of higher education cybercrime victimization, in alignment with social media and social engineering activity deployed by higher education executive leadership, administrators, faculty, and staff that invoke cyberattacks? The second question asks, what attitude and human behavior do executive leaders, administrators, faculty, and staff, have towards completing and adhering to cybersecurity awareness training provided at institutions of higher education as a deterrence method? The third question asks, how can qualitative grounded theory lite research help the researcher understand how cyberpsychology can improve cybersecurity leadership for institutions of higher education? Thus, this research provides an introduction, research method, results, discussion, and answers to these questions, including a list of references.