Cyber Rebels

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Cyber Culture & Behaviour
Andy Longhurst

AI Can Detect Threats — But It Can’t Fix Human Decisions

The Moment That Doesn’t Look Like Risk A message comes through on Teams. It appears to be from someone senior: short, direct, and straightforward. They need something sorted quickly. There is a sense of urgency, but nothing that feels unusual or out of character. Requests like this happen all the

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Contrast between training and real work environments.
Cyber Culture & Behaviour
Andy Longhurst

How Employees Actually Make Security Decisions at Work

The Reality of Workplace Decisions There’s an assumption built into most cybersecurity training. That when an employee is faced with something suspicious, they will recognise the moment, pause what they are doing, and apply what they have been taught. That they will step out of the flow of work, assess

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The Cyber Rebels Five-Domain Model framework for behaviour-led cybersecurity training
Cyber Rebels Updates
Andy Longhurst

What Is Behaviour-Led Cybersecurity Training?

In our previous article, Why Knowledge Alone Isn’t Enough, we explored why traditional cybersecurity awareness training often fails to prevent real-world cyber incidents. Cybersecurity incidents are frequently attributed to human error. An employee clicked a malicious link, approved a fraudulent payment, or shared information with someone they believed to be

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Cyber awareness training and judgement guidance
Cyber Culture & Behaviour
Andy Longhurst

Behaviour-Led Cybersecurity Training: Why Knowledge Alone Isn’t Enough

Cybersecurity has become part of everyday conversation in modern organisations. Major ransomware attacks, data breaches, and online fraud incidents are now widely reported in the news, and most employees are well aware that cyber criminals regularly target businesses through phishing emails, fraudulent messages, and other forms of social engineering. In

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Volunteers at a fundraising event.
Cyber Culture & Behaviour
Andy Longhurst

Why Charities Are Becoming a Prime Target for Cybercriminals

Charities occupy a unique position within society. They exist to support communities, protect vulnerable individuals, and address challenges that many other organisations are not equipped to handle. From local community initiatives to large international organisations, charities are built on trust — trust from donors, volunteers, beneficiaries, and the public. People

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Industry-Specific Cybersecurity
Andy Longhurst

Data Theft in Law Firms: Why the Real Risk Isn’t Technical

Law firms are among the most trusted institutions in professional life. Clients disclose commercially sensitive strategies, personal histories, financial arrangements and future intentions on the understanding that those matters will be handled with discretion and care. Confidentiality is not a marketing claim within legal practice; it is an ethical obligation

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Silhouette teaching: Compliance isn't safeguarding message.
Cybersecurity Strategy & Governance
Andy Longhurst

Compliance Isn’t Safeguarding: Is 36 Minutes of Cyber Training Enough for Schools?

Compliance, Confidence and Safeguarding Responsibility Each year, schools across the UK complete the cyber security awareness training produced by the National Cyber Security Centre in support of the Department for Education Cyber Security Standards. The module takes approximately thirty-six minutes to complete and concludes with a downloadable certificate confirming that

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