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While organisations worldwide struggle with a well-documented skills shortage, we simultaneously lack a comprehensive framework that addresses the human and behavioural dimensions of cyber risk management. Technical certifications abound - from CISSP to CEH - but where are the frameworks that guide professionals working at the intersection of human behaviour, psychology, and cybersecurity?
Read article →This article explores what secure and ethical behaviour looks like in an era of agentic AI, how human and AI behaviours intersect, and what you can do to promote safe, responsible use across your organisation. The focus is practical: helping you support innovation while keeping security, safety, and ethics firmly in view.
Read article →The rise of artificial intelligence has been compared to the invention of electricity, the printing press, even the internet itself. But unlike those revolutions, AI doesn’t just extend our capabilities, it begins to mirror them. As we edge closer to the idea of the Singularity – a tipping point where machine intelligence accelerates beyond human control, the most pressing risks won’t come from code alone. They’ll come from us.
Read article →Part five of a seven-part series unpacking how the behavioural science concept of choice architecture can be woven into IT architecture, UX/UI, and development lifecycles to nudge, guide, and default users toward secure behaviours – without relying solely on training or policy. Each article will blend behavioural science, secure-by-design principles, and practical application in the technology lifecycle.
Read article →Despite years of simulations and mandatory e-learning, phishing continues to succeed. Why? Because too many organisations treat phishing simulations as a one-off training exercise rather than a behavioural challenge. Clicking “next” on an annual training module doesn’t rewire the habits and decision-making shortcuts that attackers exploit every day.
Read article →Beneath the firewalls and encryption layers lies a far older human force: our need to belong. This drive for group identity, which has shaped societies for millennia, now shapes how we behave online. This is where cybersecurity meets anthropology, a lens that helps us understand why people in digital spaces form “cyber tribes” and how these tribal affiliations influence behaviours, risk perception, and even compliance with security practices.
Read article →In the first three blogs of this series, we looked at the foundations of choice architecture, the power of secure defaults, and how UX nudges can guide people toward safer decisions. But here’s the challenge: unless these principles are baked into the way we build technology, they risk becoming afterthoughts, nice-to-have features that get dropped when deadlines bite. That’s why the next step is embedding choice architecture into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) itself.
Read article →Traditional threat models focus heavily on technical vectors, malware payloads, privilege escalation, misconfigurations, and lateral movement. These are critical, but they only paint half the picture. The majority of breaches today begin with a human, a click, a disclosure, a misjudgement, or an omission. If we treat people as static, rational elements in the system, our threat models remain incomplete. It’s time to bring behavioural modelling into the heart of threat assessment.
Read article →This article explores how Gen AI can support HCRM, with a focus on intervention design, and provides 10 validated prompts that practitioners can adapt for their organisation’s specific context.
Read article →Human Cyber Risk Management (HCRM) – a discipline that draws on behavioural science to understand why people click, share, trust, or ignore warnings, and how we can shape cultures of secure behaviour. Today, we stand on the edge of something big. Artificial Intelligence is not just another tool in the security stack; it is reshaping the very fabric of how people work, learn, and interact. And with it, the way we must think about human cyber risk.
Read article →In the first two blogs of this series, we explored how choice architecture shapes behaviour and why secure defaults are one of the most powerful tools in security. Now it’s time to move into the world of user experience (UX) and interface design, where the smallest details can have the biggest impact on whether people behave securely… or take risky shortcuts.
Read article →Part two of a seven-part series unpacking how the behavioural science concept of choice architecture can be woven into IT architecture, UX/UI, and development lifecycles to nudge, guide, and default users toward secure behaviours – without relying solely on training or policy. Each article will blend behavioural science, secure-by-design principles, and practical application in the technology lifecycle.
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