How Do People Deal with Risk in Cyber Spaces? Setting the Scene Cybersecurity is one of the major problems faced by businesses in the digital age. On a daily basis, the overwhelming majority of businesses around the globe face hacking, cyber theft, malware, cyber fraud, as well as many other…

What is Active Cyber Defence? The term “Active Cyber Defence” (ACD), whilst decades old, has recently gained popularity: it is used by individual users, cybersecurity professionals, bloggers, policy makers, and even cyber defence systems at national and international levels. What does ACD actually mean? At an individual level, ACD means…

Why Culture Matters Notorious exhibits of the irresponsible use of digital technologies causing harm to large numbers of citizens (such as the Cambridge Analytica case) tell us that regulation of the Internet as one of the major technological developments of the modern global society is imminent. …

Why Businesses Fail to Defend Themselves Against Cyber Threats Look at the picture below. What do you see? At first sight, there is nothing strange about it — a client talking to an employee (all faces are deliberately hidden and all screens whitened). But what if I tell you that…

Your Guide to Cyber Threats, which Helps You Protect Against Them The modern digital economy cybersecurity threats constitute major challenges for the functioning of any business. For a business owner, employee, or consumer it is really hard to navigate this space as there is no easy way in which cyberthreats…

Why “One-Size-Fits-All” Cybersecurity Fails to Deliver Significant financial and human resources are devoted to alleviating the negative consequences of cybercrime. Yet the prevention and forecasting techniques used by the overwhelming majority of individuals, organisations, and states fail, allowing adversaries to breach valuable targets. Why haven’t we yet found the antidote…

Behavioral Data Science as a Logical Evolution of Behavioral Science Behavioral Data Science is a new, emerging, interdisciplinary field, which combines techniques from the behavioral sciences, such as psychology, economics, sociology, and business, with computational approaches from computer science, statistics, data-centric engineering, information systems research and mathematics, all in order to better model, understand and predict behavior.