Mind games: the psychology of cybersecurity

How important is human behaviour in cybersecurity? How well do we know our people, and do we understand the risks posed by individuals' actions?

Research suggests that the overwhelming majority of cyber breaches start with human error or poor practice. But despite investments in security training and security awareness, we still make mistakes.

Over the next three episodes, we will examine some of the human factors around cybersecurity, including human risk management, and how we change behaviour.

We'll start the series by looking at the psychology of cybersecurity, as well as how to measure change.

Our guest is Dr Thea Mannix, a neuroscientist and head of research at Praxis Security Labs