WHAT IS TEMPERATURE?
Measuring What Truly Drives Cyber
Behaviour
Organisations need to understand their cyber security culture to identify why their people behave the way they do. Without this understanding organisations will struggle to drive sustained behaviour change.
Avella are proud to support ‘Temperature’, an evidence-based, people-centric platform that helps organisations measure, understand and improve their cyber security culture.
Designed by Social Machines, a team of UK behavioural scientists, Temperature gives security, culture and business leaders the data and insight they’ve been missing.
Why Cyber Security Culture Matters
How can you stop people from clicking on suspicious emails? More training and awareness might be the answer, but that’s not all. Truly understanding why cyber security is not a priority for your employees – that’s about culture.
Improving your culture drives a sustained reduction in human cyber risks.
Temperature helps organisations to:
Identify risky behaviours across the organisation and uncover human factors that shape security.
Understand cultural blind spots across teams and reveal where everyday habits create exposure.
Pinpoint where pressures or misunderstandings undermine security and increase human risk.
Strengthen leadership insight and reporting to drive informed, organisation-wide improvements.
Support strategic decision-making with clear, actionable data on human-driven cyber risk.
Build long-term cultural change, not ‘one-off’ fixes, through continuous evidence-led insight.
How Temperature Works
Temperature is an all-in-one organisational security culture measurement, management and change platform.
The Four Pillars of Cyber Security Culture
Temperature’s cyber security culture taxonomy is built on three years of behavioural science research commissioned by the UK Government. It measures four critical cultural factors:
Social Environment
The social environment reflects an employee’s sense that the people around them in the organisation promote and support cyber security. This can happen directly (like sharing tips) and indirectly (like building trust).
Policy
Policy reflects employees’ positive feelings toward cyber security policies within the organisation. It’s shaped by how clearly the policies are communicated and translated.
Knowledge
Knowledge reflects employees’ sense that they have a strong understanding and awareness of cyber security within the organisation, and that the cyber security training is effective.
Leadership
Leadership reflects employees’ sense that managers actively promote cyber security and have the capability to do so.
“We believe the Temperature platform will provide a step change for us in understanding, measuring and improving our cyber security culture.”
Cyber Culture & Human Risk Manager at a global FMCG organisation