Dr. Meagan Copelin
Founder & Forensic Cyberpsychology Researcher
Mental Rich
Dr. Meagan Copelin, MBA, PsyD, is a forensic cyberpsychology researcher specializing in digital victimization, behavioral risk, and human vulnerability in cyber environments. Her work examines how manipulation, fraud, and AI-mediated systems exploit cognitive and emotional processes, with a focus on vulnerable populations. She develops behavioral risk frameworks that translate human behavior into actionable insights for cybersecurity, threat modeling, and prevention.
Speaker sessions
Briefings and Arsenals | Confirmed Speakers | No Session Assigned
Placeholder session for confirmed speakers without an assigned session, allowing them to be pushed to Swapcard and Visit.
- 07:30
- Tue
- 01 Dec
Stage:
Briefing Stage 2
Sessions Type:
Keynote
Repetitive Targeting in Online Scams: A Behavioral Conditioning Model of Human Exploitation
This session reframes a critical gap in cybersecurity: the persistent failure to treat human behavior as a primary attack surface. While security frameworks prioritize technical vulnerabilities, threat actors increasingly exploit cognitive, emotional, and behavioral pathways to achieve access, influence, and financial gain.This briefing introduces a forensic cyberpsychology model explaining how online scam victims are not only targeted once, but repeatedly re-engaged through structured behavioral conditioning loops. Drawing from qualitative research on digital victimization, the session demonstrates how attackers leverage trust formation, emotional triggers, and cognitive overload to sustain long-term exploitation.Rather than framing victimization as individual error, this work positions it as a systemic security failure rooted in the absence of behavioral insight within cybersecurity design and threat modeling. The session connects psychological mechanisms to real-world attack strategies, including social engineering and fraud, and presents a human-centered framework for identifying, predicting, and disrupting exploitation cycles.Attendees will gain a new lens for understanding cyber risk that integrates behavioral science into security practice, enabling more effective prevention, detection, and response strategies in increasingly human-targeted threat environments.
- 16:30
- Thu
- 03 Dec
Stage:
Briefing Stage 2
Sessions Type:
Keynote