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Behavioural Cybersecurity Pt 4: Findings – Creating champions of change

How people react on-line after being scammed – and how to create champions of change within your organisation.

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Behavioural Cybersecurity Pt 3: The research context: clicking on dodgy links

So this is the third in a series of posts delving into behavioural Cybersecurity.  We started with a general overview of how people keeping themselves safe from cyber attacks is surprisingly similar to people keeping themselves fit and healthy.   This means that we can apply really well researched, empirically derived models of health behaviour to […]

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Behavioural Cybersecurity Pt 2: The Models – TRA and TPB.

So previously I talked about health psychology and what it had to offer the domain of cybersecurity behaviour.  I mentioned that there were a number of psychological models which have turned out to be incredibly applicable to understanding and predicting why people do and don’t carry out good cybersecurity practices.  So today we’re going to […]

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Behavioural Cybersecurity Pt 1: What we can learn from Health Psychology.

Cybersecurity, like many other fields, is one where it is easy to become overwhelmed by the technical aspects of the challenges involved, and miss one of the most important determinants of outcomes – namely human behaviour.  In the same way that you can provide an army with weapons, logistics, technology etc…  if the individual soldiers […]

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