Kevin Kapadia

Structural Complexities and Dependencies in Layered Security: Baking in Deterrence through Target Shifting

2026 · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

This study examined how defense complexity and dependency, expected value (EV), rewards, and individual characteristics influence target selection for multi-layered security systems. Participants (N = 366) selected targets with one, two, or three security layers …