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Research insights and practical articles on behavioural science, security culture, and human cyber risk - from the CyBehave research programme.

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Research Insights are findings from the CyBehave research programme - data, evidence and what it means for practice. Articles are practical guidance - how to apply behavioural science to your security programme day to day.

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Insight 20 Jul 2026 8 min
Eighty-three theories and still nobody locks their screen
There are at least 83 published theories of behaviour change. Michie and colleagues catalogued them in 2014, a...
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Insight 30 Jun 2026 7 min
Is this the end of the nudge?
For more than a decade, the nudge has been the dominant idea in applied behavioural science. Change the way a ...
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Insight 4 Jun 2026 15 min
What You Inherit When You Acquire: The Security Culture Nobody Diagnosed
Security due diligence examines what an organisation has. Security culture integration examines what it does. ...
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Insight 1 May 2026 14 min
Human Behaviour Under AI-Enabled Adversarial Pressure
The Discipline That Assumed a Static Threat Behavioural cybersecurity emerged as a field from a recognition t...
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Insight 16 Feb 2026 8 min
Behavioural Convergence Theory
Executive Summary As artificial intelligence agents increasingly participate in organisational cyber risk lan...
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Insight 6 Feb 2026 12 min
Nudging the Machine: Behavioural Interventions for Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Systems
When Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein popularised the concept of "nudging" in their 2008 book, they were writi...
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Insight 1 Jan 2026 7 min
Using Social Network Analysis to Engineer a High-Impact Security Champion Network
Security Champion programmes often start strongly but plateau when they become a vehicle for repeating awarene...
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Insight 17 Nov 2025 6 min
Blame Culture Creates Security Blind Spots
When organisations punish people for security mistakes, they rarely eliminate the behaviour. Instead, they dri...
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Insight 10 Nov 2025 3 min
A Scientific Approach to Security Culture Assessment
The Measurement Problem Eighty-two per cent of security breaches involve a human element. Yet when asked how ...
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