Calling cyber and behavioural experts

We’re excited to announce CyberCAKE, a new project exploring how we can motivate individuals to change behaviours and make safer choices online.

We’re excited to announce CyberCAKE, a new project exploring how we can motivate individuals to change behaviours and make safer choices online. Funded through the Cyber Local 2025–2026 initiative by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology via Innovate UK, CyberCAKE brings together expertise from across sectors to tackle one of today’s most pressing challenges: empowering people to thrive securely in the digital age.

This workshop is to ask and help answer one of the big questions in 'Cyber' - "How do we motivate individuals to change behaviours."

Bringing together cybersecurity experts and social science practitioners to define the initial set of cyber behaviour profiles and cultural indicators that organisations and individuals could use to evaluate their own risks. The CyberCake project is asking for input and feedback from experts to support the development of tools that can help individuals to reflect on their online behaviours and feed validated insights into a readiness toolkit.

Consult the Experts - CyberCake Project Workshop Agenda

@The Storey, Lancaster 2:00pm - 4.30pm, Fri 19th Sept 2025

  • Welcome and Project Overview
  • Expert Discussion Groups
  • Confidence & Behaviour Mapping
  • Informal Networking

Refreshments and (Cyber)Cake Included

Address
The Storey, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH

Parking
Pay & Display parking at a number of locations: https://www.lancaster.gov.uk/parking/car-parks#maps

Public Transport
The Storey Institute is a 2-minute walk from Lancaster Train Station, with direct links to Preston, Manchester & London
Lancaster Bus Station is a 5-minute walk.

CyberCAKE’s technical delivery will be shaped from the outset by expert-led, interdisciplinary research workshops, combining cyber security, behavioural science, and design thinking expertise. This workshops aims generate the initial expert advice to kick-start the development of a set of cyber culture profiles and behavioural indicators, forming the backbone of a personal cyber assessment toolkit.

By grounding technical development in validated, human-centric insights, we ensure the toolkit reflects real-world behaviours, not just theoretical risk models. We'd like to invite cyber and behavioural experts to be 'in at the start' and help shape subsequent CyberLab events, serving as real-world testbeds, engaging diverse end-users - including public and voluntary sector, SMEs and digitally excluded groups

Register your interest to join the CyberCAKE expert workshops and activities to shape the research and share your experiences.

  Lancaster 2:00pm - 4.30pm, Fri 19th Sept 2025

  The Storey, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH

When it comes to digital security, everyone deserves a slice of CyberCAKE!

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