<div><span>Si Pavitt is the head of the MOD Cyber Awareness, Behaviours and Culture (CyAB&C) team under the 2* Directorate of Cyber Defence and Risk (CyDR). He is primarily responsible for setting the strategic direction for socio-behavioural change as it relates to cyber-secure behaviour across Defence although also provides consultancy to Defence human vulnerability and social engineering activities. Drawing on significant experience, ongoing academic research, and an unending passion for the subject of psychology in cyber, Si actively seeks to share knowledge and best practice with any and all interested audiences within Defence, wider government, international partners, academia and industry. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Key experience includes Forensic and social Psychology, Social engineering penetration testing (formerly MOD Cyber Vulnerability Investigations socio-behavioural lead), Former UK military (Army) and Previous presentation/literature: MOD Psychology Conference 2019 – "Psychology in Cyber Vulnerability Investigations", 3SDL 'Offensive Psychology' workshop 2020; host, presenter and co-ordinator, MOD Human Factors Integration Symposium 2019 – "Exploiting Humans: Human Behaviour, Vulnerability and Underpinning Culture through Cyber Vulnerability Investigations", Defence Academy, Cyber Foundation Pathway Module 0, lecturer for 'Human Sciences in Cyber', Forensic Cognition Research Group (FCRG); member and contributor, British Psychological Society 'DefSec21' – "What do you mean, 'Awareness' – Redefining current attitudes towards cyber-security through discourse-shaping content.", Open University Software Engineering and Design (SEAD) Research Group – "Weaponized Cyber Manipulation" Research interests; Malicious actor cognition, narrative orientated learning and engagement, gamification, discourse engagement, threat avatar construction, intangibility cognition, constructed emotion, heuristics, and converged security.</span></div>