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On demand webinars: Project NEXUS: Human risk deserves the same rigour as technical risk
Two sessions on building the world's first behavioural security ontology. And how you can shape it.

Webinar series · 2 recordings

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Session 1
Thursday, 16 July 2026 · 60 minutes
Session 2
November 2026
Speakers
Oz Alashe MBE and Prof. Jason Nurse
Cost
Free

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Why Project NEXUS

Technical risk has MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF.
Human risk has... awareness training.

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Human behavior is the #1 vector targeted by cybercriminals. Yet most organizations still rely on compliance checklists and generic training videos to solve it. That isn't a strategy, it’s guesswork.

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Behavior is where every security domain connects. Project NEXUS is a collaborative initiative to build an open-source behavioral security ontology. For the first time, the industry will have a standardized framework that maps human behaviors directly to threats, vulnerabilities, controls, and quantifiable risk outcomes.

Built by the community, for the community, this living framework brings together security leaders from across industries and academia, with everyone who contributes credited. The work is open to everyone, through readouts, webinars, and collaborative in-person sessions (the first of which has happened – do join us at the next one). These webinars are your gateway to joining the movement.

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The result? Human risk that's as legible and measurable as technical risk. Finally. 

Building on research led by Prof. Jason Nurse, CybSafe’s Director of Science and Research, the ontology is a living, evolving framework that’s bringing together cybersecurity experts and practitioners from industry to academia.

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“Imagine a shared knowledge base that clearly defines how cybersecurity and behavioral science fit together. This is it.”
Prof. Jason Nurse, Director of Science and Research, CybSafe

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What you’ll learn across two sessions

Session 1 · July 2026

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The human risk blind spot

Why the absence of a behavioural ontology is holding the cybersecurity profession back, and the massive capabilities that unlock once we solve it.

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Inside the ontology

A practical look at how Project NEXUS maps day-to-day human behaviours to real-world security threats, vulnerabilities, controls and risk outcomes.

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Your seat at the table

How early participants are already shaping the framework, how your organisation can contribute, and how you'll be credited in this industry-wide standard.

Session 2 · November 2026

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Ontologies, explained

What an ontology is, explained with a family tree, and why it lets you reason about human risk.

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Guardrails for AI

Why precise language matters, and how an ontology gives AI guardrails against hallucination.

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Threats, assets and vulnerabilities

The threat domain from threat drivers to risky behaviour, a worked CEO fraud example, and the debates it sparked: can a person be an asset? Does a threat need intent?

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Meet the leaders

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‍Prof. Jason Nurse

Director of Science & Research, CybSafe · Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Kent

Jason is the Director of Science & Research at CybSafe, and a Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Kent.

Jason leads CybSafe's research program and heads the Project NEXUS initiative. He is an Associate Fellow at RUSI, and a Research Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. With nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles published on the intersection of human behavior and cybersecurity, his academic and practical research underpins the NEXUS ontology.

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Oz Alashe MBE

CEO & Founder, CybSafe

Oz is the driving force behind CybSafe: the concept, the vision, and the platform. A former UK Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel, made an MBE in 2010 for leadership in the most complex of conflict environments, he's focused on making society more secure by helping organizations address the human aspect of cybersecurity. He chairs the UK Government's Cyber Resilience Expert Advisory Group and advises RISCS, SPRITE+, and RUSI.

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‍Help us build the third pillar of cybersecurity

Join a network of senior security professionals moving human risk from a guessing game to a rigorous science.

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