While specific aesthetic philosophies may differ across cultures, all human societies have used aesthetics to support communication and learning. Within the fields of usability and usable security, aesthetics have been deployed for such diverse purposes as enhancing students' e-learning experiences and optimising user interface design. In this paper, we seek to understand how individual users perceive the visual assets that accompany cyber security information, and how these visual assets and user perceptions underwrite a distinct \emph{cyber security aesthetic}. We ask, (1) What constitutes cyber security aesthetics, from the perspective of an individual user? and (2) How might these aesthetics affect users' perceived self-efficacy as they informally learn cyber security precepts? To begin answering these questions, we compile an image-set from cyber security web articles and analyse the distinct visual properties and sentiments of these images.

翻译：尽管不同文化的审美哲学可能存在差异，但所有人类社会都利用美学来支持沟通与学习。在可用性和可用安全领域，美学已被应用于增强学生电子学习体验和优化用户界面设计等多样化目的。本文旨在探究普通用户如何感知网络安全信息中的视觉元素，以及这些视觉元素与用户感知如何共同构成独特的"网络安全美学"。我们提出两个核心问题：（1）从普通用户视角看，网络安全美学由哪些要素构成？（2）当用户非正式学习网络安全规范时，这些美学如何影响其自我效能感知？为初步解答这些问题，我们从网络安全网络文章中整理出图像集，并分析这些图像的独特视觉特征与情感基调。