Research & Articles

Knowledge that drives better security culture

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

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. The Signals and Ripples weekly briefings round up what matters each week.

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Ripples 10 Aug 2026 1 min
Week 33: Mind the Gap
Five things caught our eye this week, and every one of them gives you something simple to share with your team...
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Signals 10 Aug 2026 1 min
Week 33: Mind the Gap
This week's edition circles a single question: what happens in the space between knowing and doing? A peer-rev...
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Insight 2 Aug 2026 7 min
We made our website readable by machines
Somebody asked an AI assistant about security champions programmes last month. It gave them an answer. Our nam...
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Ai Alignment 1 Aug 2026 15 min
John in Sales built an app this afternoon
Polish used to be an honest signal that somebody had thought carefully about how a thing was built. It is now ...
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Ai Alignment 28 Jul 2026 18 min
Give Your Agents Something to Read: Building a Normative Repository for Agentic AI
Your agents will never see a poster or absorb culture in a corridor. But they will read a file, take it litera...
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Ai Alignment 24 Jul 2026 8 min
Fighting fire with fire, when only one side is allowed to burn
Everyone's answer to the frontier AI threat is fight fire with fire. But the attacking agent has no guardrails...
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Insight 23 Jul 2026 7 min
Security behaviour is a game
I don't mean a game in the trivial sense. I mean it in the formal sense that mathematicians and economists hav...
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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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Human Psychology 17 Jul 2026 9 min
Security Is Not THE Priority
Security is what the literature calls a secondary task: something you must do on the way to your real goal. A ...
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