Biography

Dr. Francois Mouton is an Associate Professor in Cybersecurity at Noroff University College based in Oslo, Norway. His fields of expertise are social engineering, penetration testing and digital forensics. Francois graduated with a PhD Computer Science, in the field of social engineering, from the University of Pretoria in 2018. The focus of his PhD was on techniques on identifying and thwarting social engineering attacks by altering the human psyche. During his academic career he has also completed all the undergraduate modules provided at University of Pretoria for both psychology and accounting. He has (co)authored several international publications, mainly on topics of digital forensics readiness and social engineering. His current focus is on the development of a human psyche model that can be utilised by the general public to create both cyber security awareness and to allow them to protect themselves against cyber security threats.