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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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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Behavioural Change 29 Jun 2026 12 min
When did awareness become a science nobody told us we had to study?
For two decades, the role was understood. You came from learning and development or communications. You wrote ...
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Strategy 22 Jun 2026 15 min
The expertise gap: why security teams must build behavioural capability
There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of most security functions. They exist because people are the most...
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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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Behavioural Change 20 May 2026 14 min
Measuring What Matters
This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Parts 1 to 3 covered dual process theory, cognitive biases mapped to att...
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Human Ai Interaction 12 May 2026 15 min
The New Behavioural Attack Surface: Why Shadow AI is Not a Technical Problem
There is a particular kind of conversation happening in organisations right now that nobody quite wants to loo...
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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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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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