Our focus
Safety issues are often looked at from different professional perspectives, practical experiences and underlying views. This makes working together on safety not only necessary, but also complicated. Working on safety in a digitised society increasingly requires flexibility and a cooperative attitude in addition to professional expertise.
The aim is always to approach complex issues with the due care they deserve. Safety and security are continually being redefined in time and space. This makes it necessary to strive for up-to-date, multidisciplinary customisation in the approach.
The Online Resilience research group wants to contribute to societal security by developing applicable knowledge and transferring this to professionals in public and private sectors, so that co-reliance and positive resilient online behaviour become the widely supported norm in the Eastern Netherlands region as well as the rest of the Netherlands.
We realise this by:
- helping professionals with tailor-made interventions to make target groups cyber resilient;
- helping organisations increase their cyber resilience and security partners to strengthen their approach to online crime;
- making public institutions and society resilient to online behaviour that puts pressure on public values and the democratic rule of law;
- performing combined behavioural measurements to reinforce interventions and training.
Vision of cyber resilience
Cyber resilience has both a preventive and a reactive aspect. The preventive side is about knowing what the risks are and how to prevent them. The reactive side is about responding to and recovering from cyber incidents and crises. We also call this resilience. Cyber resilience is always driven by the quality of cooperation between people, in their role as residents, employees and professionals. This collaboration is not always successful. Our applied research is therefore also aimed at creating action perspectives for these bridge builders.
Cyber-resilient citizens
In the Cyber Resilient Citizens line of research, we focus on strengthening the online resilience of vulnerable groups in society, including children (8 to 12 years), young people (12 to 16 years), seniors and people with a learning disability.
Cyber resilient organisations
We help public and private organisations increase their cyber resilience through the Cyber Resilient Organisations research line. Organisations run a high risk of becoming a victim of cyber incidents. Such incidents can have a major impact on the organisation and society. In addition, we help security organisations, such as the police, municipalities and their partners, to prevent and tackle online crime.
Digital Society
In the Digital Society research line, we focus on harmful online behaviour that puts pressure on public values and the democratic rule of law. Specifically, this concerns behaviours such as online discrimination against minorities, online threats and intimidation of administrators and civil servants, influencing by disinformation and the spread of conspiracy theories. This type of online behaviour poses complex issues for professionals and public organisations alike.
Resilience LAB
In our Cyber Resilience LAB, we investigate human behaviour in dealing with online risks. We focus on performing combined behavioural measurements. We do this at our LAB at the Centre for Security & Digitalisation and on location with professional partners and clients. This is how we contribute to knowledge development and build effective interventions and training courses.