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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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Human Psychology 24 Apr 2026 7 min
Designing Security for Humans
This is Part 3 of a four-part series. Parts 1 and 2 established why people behave insecurely despite knowing b...
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Human Psychology 10 Apr 2026 15 min
The Biases That Hack Your People
This is Part 2 of a four-part series. Part 1 introduced dual process theory and the knowledge-behaviour gap. T...
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Human Psychology 23 Mar 2026 5 min
Your Users Are Not the Enemy
This is Part 1 of a four-part series on behavioural science for cybersecurity practitioners. It introduces the...
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Behavioural Change 5 Mar 2026 8 min
The Security Champion Effect: How One Person in the Right Place Can Change the Entire Risk Profile of a Team
Somewhere in your organisation, a team’s cyber risk is elevated, not from unpatched systems, but behaviour: ...
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Behavioural Change 18 Feb 2026 10 min
Context-Aware Security Reduces Resistance
There is a familiar paradox at the heart of most enterprise security programmes. The harder organisations push...
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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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Multi Agent Systems 2 Feb 2026 15 min
AI agents just built their own social network. Your threat model isn't ready.
Moltbook is making headlines. It looks like Reddit, but AI agents are doing the posting, commenting, and upvot...
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Research 25 Jan 2026 15 min
The Science of Security Culture Change: How Data-Driven Security Champions Actually Transform Organisations
Research in organisational behaviour consistently demonstrates that strategic positioning of change agents wit...
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