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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Signals 14 Sep 2026 1 min
SIGNAL: Week 38 - Trust Falls
Attackers have started dressing up as security itself. This week: Microsoft traces fake IT calls pushing bogus...
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Ripples 14 Sep 2026 1 min
Week 38: Trust Falls
Scammers have worked out that the easiest way past our defences is to dress up as the defences themselves. Thi...
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Signals 7 Sep 2026 1 min
SIGNAL: Week 37 - Who's Asking?
Every story this week turns on one quiet question: who's actually asking? Microsoft has caught attackers posin...
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Ripples 7 Sep 2026 1 min
Week 37: Who's Asking?
This week is all about impostors: fake IT support asking for access to your computer, scam texts about tolls a...
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Insight 7 Sep 2026 8 min
Seven months on from Moltbook
In February we wrote that AI agents had built their own social network and that your threat model wasn't ready...
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Multi Agent Systems 4 Sep 2026 15 min
Multi-Agent AI Is Replicating Social Psychology
Multi-agent AI research has quietly become a replication project for social psychology. Independent teams keep...
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Insight 2 Sep 2026 8 min
The Champion Density Problem
What the science of how behaviour spreads says about how many champions a team really needs, and why your best...
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Ripples 31 Aug 2026 1 min
Week 36: Humans in the Loop
The people who run security training say AI is now their second biggest worry, the UK's cyber experts want a h...
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Signals 31 Aug 2026 1 min
SIGNAL: Week 36 - Humans in the Loop
AI is now the second biggest human risk we manage, says SANS. Researchers watched developers forget to ask the...
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