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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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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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Behavioural Change 9 Sep 2025 10 min
Harnessing Generative AI for HCRM
This article explores how Gen AI can support HCRM, with a focus on intervention design, and provides 10 valida...
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Human Ai Interaction 4 Sep 2025 5 min
Human Cyber Risk in the Age of AI
Human Cyber Risk Management (HCRM) – a discipline that draws on behavioural science to understand why people...
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Behavioural Change 28 Aug 2025 5 min
Nudging Through UX
In the first two blogs of this series, we explored how choice architecture shapes behaviour and why secure def...
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Behavioural Change 21 Aug 2025 5 min
Designing Secure Defaults That Stick
Part two of a seven-part series unpacking how the behavioural science concept of choice architecture can be wo...
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Behavioural Change 14 Aug 2025 5 min
Choice Architecture Meets IT Architecture
The first of a seven-part series that will unpack how the behavioural science concept of choice architecture c...
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Cyber Behaviour 9 Aug 2025 5 min
When AI is Misused: The Human Risk We Can’t Ignore
From automating processes to generating insights, AI offers unprecedented opportunities. But alongside this op...
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