Designing Behavioural Changes Into Security

Duration: 1 days / 6 hours
Delivery method: Online (Zoom ↗️ or Teams ↗️/ In-company training
Target Audience: This course is ideal for professionals responsible for influencing secure behaviour across diverse teams. It’s especially valuable for those who must translate technical risks into clear, actionable guidance for non-technical stakeholders. Whether you’re shaping awareness campaigns, advising leadership, or improving everyday security practices, this training equips you to communicate behavioural insights in a way that drives real change.
Cost: Available upon application
Language: English
Course code: DBC-1

Introduction

This course introduces security practitioners to the core principles of behavioural change—moving beyond surface-level awareness to influencing secure actions in the workplace. To begin with, it focuses on behavioural foundations, helping participants understand why people often know the right thing to do but still fail to do it. In particular, this section examines how habits and cognitive biases silently shape day-to-day security decisions.

Following that, the course dives into practical behavioural design techniques. Participants will learn not only how to identify behavioural triggers but also how to apply nudges and prompts to encourage secure actions. As a result, making secure choices becomes easier and more intuitive for users.

Throughout the course, real-world examples and scenarios bring each concept to life. Whether you’re leading an awareness campaign, shaping a security culture, or advising from a compliance or leadership role, you’ll gain tools that can be applied immediately. By the end, you’ll know how to turn behavioural insights into clear, measurable actions that support your organisation’s goals.

Ultimately, knowledge alone isn’t enough. While awareness creates potential, only behaviour creates impact.

So if you’ve ever believed that “knowledge is power,” this course reveals the full truth: knowledge is potential — but behaviour is impact.

What you will learn

First, the difference between awareness and behaviour—and why knowledge alone isn’t enough to drive secure actionThen, the key principles of behavioural science and how they directly apply to real-world cybersecurity challengesNext, how to identify and map behavioural triggers within common security processes
In addition, techniques for designing effective nudges, defaults, and micro-interventions that shape secure habits
Furthermore, methods to reduce friction and encourage secure behaviours by design, not just instruction
You’ll also learn how to evaluate and improve existing security communications using behavioural insights
Importantly, the use of behavioural KPIs to measure real impact, not just awareness or training completion
Moreover, how to align your behavioural interventions with your broader organisational security culture goals
Along the way, practical frameworks for planning, testing, and scaling your behaviour-change initiatives
Finally, real-world case studies and examples that demonstrate what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to lasting security behaviour change