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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 17 Oct 2025 18 min
Cultural Barriers to Effective Incident Reporting
Understanding Why Employees Hesitate to Report Security Incidents and How to Create a Culture of Transparency ...
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Insight 15 Oct 2025 12 min
The Ethics of Behaviour Monitoring in Cybersecurity
Balancing Security Needs with Employee Privacy and Trust in Modern Workplace Surveillance Practices Introduct...
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Insight 13 Oct 2025 8 min
The Importance of Psychological Safety in Security Culture
How creating an environment where people feel safe to speak up strengthens organisational security posture In...
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Human Ai Interaction 29 Sep 2025 5 min
Singularity
The rise of artificial intelligence has been compared to the invention of electricity, the printing press, eve...
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Behavioural Change 26 Sep 2025 5 min
Measuring the Impact of Behavioural Design in Security
Part five of a seven-part series unpacking how the behavioural science concept of choice architecture can be w...
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Human Psychology 19 Sep 2025 5 min
Phishing Training Is Broken. Here’s the Behavioural Fix.
Despite years of simulations and mandatory e-learning, phishing continues to succeed. Why? Because too many or...
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Human Psychology 12 Sep 2025 5 min
The Cyber Tribe: Group Identity and Cybersecurity Behaviour
Beneath the firewalls and encryption layers lies a far older human force: our need to belong. This drive for g...
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Behavioural Change 11 Sep 2025 5 min
Making Behavioural Design Part of Engineering
In the first three blogs of this series, we looked at the foundations of choice architecture, the power of sec...
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Cyber Behaviour 10 Sep 2025 7 min
Behavioural Threat Modelling
Traditional threat models focus heavily on technical vectors, malware payloads, privilege escalation, misconfi...
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