Behavioral Science is an integral part of our services because policies don’t help if people don’t follow them. Your people are more likely to follow those policies if their job performance metrics require it and if it's easier to follow policies than ignore them. Making your cyber security program self-sustaining is more about people’s behavior than the organization’s policies.

These are some of the places where cyber security meets behavioral science.

Senior Associate Ted Hayes is our domain expert. He is the Editor of Consulting Psychology Journal® which is published under the auspices of the American Psychological Association (APA). You can find the CPJ on the web at this address:

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/cpb

Ted has also made presentations on insider threat and artificial intelligence as part of programs for the Society for Consulting Psychology and several U.S. intelligence agencies.

Want to know more about why we say that a good cyber security program needs a good behavioral science foundation? Here is a white paper Ted wrote on our BARC effort (Behavioral Analysis of Risks to Cybersecurity) which is a good introduction to what we are doing in this area: Our BARC Makes Your Bytes Better.