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Dr. Lovelie Moore

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Research

Where human behavior meets cyber risk

Research on security awareness, decision-making and the culture that decides whether controls actually hold.

Doctoral research

Gamifying cybersecurity awareness

Can awareness training do more than satisfy an auditor? This research examines what happens when learning about risk becomes an experience instead of a checkbox.

Presented publicly as: “Gamifying Cybersecurity Awareness: Exploring How Experiential Learning Influences IT Governance Leaders’ Engagement and Risk Decision-Making in the Financial Sector.”

Shown as a research/presentation topic exactly as publicly described; dissertation-title status is not independently verified.

Question
How do gamified, experiential approaches to security awareness influence engagement, learning retention, risk perception, behavioral response and decision-making?
Why it matters
Conventional compliance training proves attendance, not judgment. Breaches rarely begin with missing technology — they begin with a decision made under pressure.
Who was studied
IT governance leaders within financial institutions — the people accountable for how risk decisions get made.
Setting
The financial sector, where regulatory compliance and human behavior collide daily.
To practice
Findings feed directly into security-culture programs: awareness that is experienced survives the calendar; awareness that is assigned expires at the training deadline.

From research to practice

How evidence becomes resilience

The through-line from a training room to an organization that recovers well.

  1. Traditional awareness
  2. Experiential learning
  3. Engagement
  4. Behavioral change
  5. Risk-aware decisions
  6. Organizational resilience

Research to framework

The research became IM PATCHED

Publicly, Dr. Moore’s doctoral work on gamified cybersecurity awareness training is described as the seed of the IM PATCHED framework — the bridge between how organizations patch systems and how people address their own vulnerabilities.

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Focus areas

  • — Gamified cybersecurity awareness
  • — Cybersecurity education & experiential learning
  • — Human behavior & risk decision-making
  • — Security culture & behavioral resilience
  • — Cybersecurity governance in financial services

Research library

Entries, presentations and briefs

New research entries appear here automatically as they are published.

  • Doctoral Research: Gamifying Cybersecurity Awareness

    Research type: Doctoral ResearchTopics: Gamified awareness, Security education, Human behavior, Risk decision-making, Cybersecurity governance, Financial-sector cybersecurity, Experiential learning, Security culture

    How experiential learning influences IT governance leaders’ engagement and risk decision-making in the financial sector.

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Publications & downloads

Papers, briefs and presentations

Peer-reviewed papers, research briefs, conference decks and downloadable resources will be catalogued here — each with DOI or PDF links where they exist. At launch, the doctoral research above is the flagship work; nothing is listed until it can be linked to a real source.

Status

Forthcoming

Publication cards, Google Scholar and DOI links will activate here once verified against public records — placeholders only, never invented citations.

Research collaboration & academic inquiries

Universities, journals and program chairs — Dr. Moore welcomes conversations about research, review and guest lectures.

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