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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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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Human Psychology 23 Mar 2026 5 min
Your Users Are Not the Enemy
This is Part 1 of a four-part series on behavioural science for cybersecurity practitioners. It introduces the...
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Behavioural Change 5 Mar 2026 8 min
The Security Champion Effect: How One Person in the Right Place Can Change the Entire Risk Profile of a Team
Somewhere in your organisation, a team’s cyber risk is elevated, not from unpatched systems, but behaviour: ...
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Behavioural Change 18 Feb 2026 10 min
Context-Aware Security Reduces Resistance
There is a familiar paradox at the heart of most enterprise security programmes. The harder organisations push...
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Insight 16 Feb 2026 8 min
Behavioural Convergence Theory
Executive Summary As artificial intelligence agents increasingly participate in organisational cyber risk lan...
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