CyBehave Heroes applies behavioural science to recruit, train, and measure Security Champions - without requiring you or your Champions to be behavioural scientists. The platform translates the key frameworks and methods into guided workflows, giving you evidence-based precision at every stage of your programme.
Rename the role to match your culture. Heroes adapts every label across the platform - so it speaks your organisation's language.
A Champions programme is not a project with an end date - it is a continuous behavioural change effort. Heroes guides you through five stages, each with the right tools at the right time, so you can build, embed, mature, sustain, and evolve your programme with confidence.
Establishing foundations: secure executive sponsorship, define your org structure, recruit your first cohort, and run a baseline Champion Check-In.
Bedding the programme in: a regular cadence of pulses and check-ins, first interventions running, Champion onboarding flow tightened.
Scaling impact: COM-B-driven interventions, SNA-mapped influence networks, Team Pulse covering the org, Strategic Outcomes trending up.
Holding gains: consistent engagement cadence, measurable behaviour change in the data, Champions designing their own interventions.
Continuous improvement: retiring what no longer works, A/B testing comms and interventions, exporting evidence to the board.
One platform for the full Champion lifecycle - from onboarding and training through to board-level reporting and programme maturity.
End-to-end management of every Champion, from the moment they are recommended through onboarding, active contribution, and a graceful offboarding.
Visualise Champion coverage across divisions, departments, and geographies. The engagement heatmap shows activity across six dimensions with exportable reports so gaps are visible at a glance.
Three times a year, Champions capture short outside-in feedback from their teams on security behaviours and maturity. Combined with monthly Champion check-ins, Behavioural Heartbeat gives you continuous visibility of your security culture - verifiable data to design, execute, and measure interventions.
A guided five-step workflow to design Behaviour Change Wheel-aligned interventions. Diagnose COM-B deficits, select matched techniques, build weekly action plans, and measure impact.
A multi-module tiered curriculum covering behavioural science, communication psychology, critical thinking, and programme leadership. Role-specific paths with certificates and downloadable summaries.
Assign behaviour change tasks from a curated library and link them to Champion development journeys. XP, five-tier progression, badges, a leaderboard, and Champion of the Month reward progress - evidence-based gamification that motivates without creating unhealthy competitive pressure.
An internal Champion community feed and a behavioural comms builder with psychological safety analysis and specificity checking to help Champions communicate more effectively.
Always-on behavioural coaching built into every page. Nudge helps Champions design interventions, supports Programme Teams in reading data, and guides every new user through the platform grounded in COM-B throughout.
Champions are volunteers with day jobs. Heroes is built around a 20-30 minute weekly rhythm - short tasks, bite-sized learning, and quick check-ins that fit around existing commitments. Sustainable engagement is how Champion programmes survive beyond year one.
Four roles, each with the right access for the job. Programme Leaders own strategy and governance, Programme Teams run the day-to-day, Security Teams triage risk, and Champions do the behaviour-change work on the ground.
| Capability | ProgrammeLeader | ProgrammeTeam | SecurityTeam | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy, billing & settingsPlan, seats, SSO, KPI weightings, feature toggles | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Champion management & lifecycleInvite, suspend, offboard, transfer, roster | ✓ | ✓ | – | – |
| Intervention Designer & Comms BuilderDesign, assign, retrospective, templates | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Behavioural Heartbeat & check-insTeam Pulse, Champion Check-In, 360 feedback | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Coverage Map & Programme analyticsCoverage, engagement, SCI, trends, reports | ✓ | ✓ | Read | – |
| Risk management & triageReport, register, dashboard, triage queue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Journeys, tasks & gamificationXP, tiers, badges, leaderboard, Log Activity | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Training Academy & LibraryModules, certificates, books and research | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nudge AI coachingChat, guided tours, context help | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
Nudge is built into every corner of CyBehave Heroes. Grounded in the COM-B model and CyBehave research, it is a genuine coaching companion available to Champions, Programme Teams, and Programme Leaders around the clock.
Most security culture programmes stop at awareness. Heroes uses the COM-B model and Behaviour Change Wheel to diagnose why people behave the way they do - then designs interventions that last.
Every Heartbeat reading, task, and intervention in the platform maps back to one of three COM-B components, ensuring your programme effort is always directed at the right lever.
Read the science →The physical and psychological ability to perform secure behaviours. Skills, knowledge, and the cognitive function to apply them under pressure.
The environment that makes secure behaviour the easy, default choice. Social norms, tools, processes, and the absence of unnecessary friction.
The reflective intentions and automatic habits that drive secure behaviour. Incentives, beliefs, identity, and emotional responses to risk.
Effective Security Champions programmes are not about finding one heroic individual who gives presentations on password hygiene. They are about building a network of trusted peers across different roles, teams, and functions - each one positioned to influence the people around them in ways that a central security team never can.
Behavioural science tells us that people adopt behaviours because of social proof, trust, and peer modelling - not because of awareness presentations. Your Champions need to be embedded across your organisation, visible to different audiences, and credible in their own context.
Heroes' Social Network Analysis maps the real influence topology of your Champion network - identifying who is connecting teams, who is isolated, and where the programme is fragile before it becomes a problem.
Heroes rolls everything your programme captures into three Strategic Outcomes - Building Behaviour, Building Culture, and Building Resilience - each a weighted 0-100 score that gives your board a clear, longitudinal read on security maturity. Beneath them sits a rich set of metrics for programme health, behavioural maturity, risk management, coverage and engagement.
How consistently secure behaviours are performed across your organisation.
Target behaviours are reliably performed by most of the champion network and the wider population under usual conditions. Low 42 · High 57 · Δ +4
How deeply shared security norms and values are held across teams.
Stated values and programme narratives are widely known and repeated. People agree with them in conversation, though practice and rhetoric can still diverge. Low 62 · High 65 · Δ +2
Capacity to anticipate, monitor, respond to and learn from security events.
Common threats are anticipated and monitored, response is structured, and learning loops feed back into programme activity. Low 44 · High 46 · Δ +1
The three Strategic Outcomes are coupled over time - a 90-day moving average of Behaviour feeds Culture, and a 180-day average of Culture feeds Resilience - so each score carries the prior strategic context forward, exactly as the platform models it. Every score is exportable to CSV and board-ready on demand.
The Training Academy gives your team access to the scientific methods and frameworks that underpin the Heroes platform - without requiring anyone to become a behavioural scientist. Each module is short and focused, bringing the key concepts to life through practical examples relevant to your security programme. Every module ends with a downloadable summary you can print out and refer back to, so learning stays accessible long after the session is complete.
Champions, security teams, and programme leaders each see the modules relevant to their role - building a shared language and evidence-based approach across the programme without overwhelming anyone with theory.
COM-B and Behaviour Change Wheel foundations, dual-process theory (System 1 and 2), communication psychology, and critical thinking. Designed to be accessible to anyone - no prior scientific knowledge required.
Champion skills and team engagement, intervention design, programme management, measurement and evaluation, and social network analysis. Modules match each role's practical day-to-day needs.
Organisational culture and resistance to change, strategic reporting and programme maturity, and choice architecture. Each module includes a downloadable PDF summary to keep and refer back to.
Specialist Quests are available for Champions who want to go deeper - self-enrol in optional pathways like Trusted Advisor or Risk Reporter to earn unique badges and develop specialist skills.
CyBehave Book Library — included for all users. Every member of the programme gets free online access to three essential titles: Building a Cybersecurity Culture, Behavioural Change Playbook for Cybersecurity, and The Rise of the Security Champion. The books ground the programme in the same evidence base that underpins every feature of the platform.
Heroes gives each user exactly what they need - no more, no less. Four distinct roles with tailored access and purpose-built dashboards.
Full administrative control. Configure the platform, manage billing, set strategy, design interventions, and access all analytics and board reporting.
Manage Champions day-to-day. Run the Behavioural Heartbeat, assign tasks, build communications, design interventions, and monitor engagement across the network.
Read-only programme analytics. Contribute behavioural risk data to inform intervention design.
A personal portal to complete tasks, earn XP, progress through tiers, connect with peers, access training, and track your impact on your team's security culture.
Champions come and go - some stay for years, others for a season - and that is entirely normal. Roles change, priorities shift, and people move on. Heroes helps you manage the full lifecycle of every Champion, from the moment they are recommended through to a graceful offboarding - so turnover becomes a planned, auditable workflow rather than a coverage emergency.
A Programme Team or Security Team member spots the right person and puts them forward. The opportunity is captured before anyone is formally invited.
One click sends a signed invitation email. The Champion accepts, sets a password and MFA, and completes their baseline check-in and COM-B primer.
Department, location and business unit are recorded, the Champion joins the Directory, and their first journeys and tasks are assigned.
Role-specific Training Academy modules build capability - from COM-B foundations to intervention design - with quizzes, badges and certificates to evidence progress.
The active life of a Champion - logging activity, progressing through tiers, running interventions, and shaping their team's security culture.
Leave of absence, secondment or role change? Suspend, reactivate or transfer in a click - with a coverage check so cover never drops silently.
A graceful exit with a handover period. Open tasks move to review for reassignment, and the Champion is retained as alumni for 90 days.
Every move - new Champions, offboarding started, gone inactive, purged - rolls up into a single daily digest email, so Programme Leaders and Teams get one clear summary instead of a stream of point alerts.
28-day free trial. No credit card required. Full platform access from day one.