Insights and research

Tirohanga Insights and research

Research in cyber security is vital for understanding and combating the ever-changing threats in the digital world, protecting sensitive information, ensuring compliance and helping to keep society safe and secure online. Our research also helps to understand behaviours and attitudes towards cyber security and increase awareness of cyber security impacts and best practice. In this section you will find our reports and research that support this work.

Cyber security insights (Quarterly reports)

CERT NZ provides quarterly insights on the New Zealand threat landscape. The reports provide a snapshot of the types of cyber security threats and incidents that have been reported in the quarter, and an update on our work to protect New Zealanders online.

Cyber Security Insight reports

Threat reports

CERT NZ produces periodic threat reports to illustrate and identify notable trends in information we collect. This leads to highlighting threats and possible actions or interventions for consideration.

Threat reports

Cyber security behavioural research

To support our work to encourage New Zealanders to be secure online, we have been researching the behaviours and influences that support cyber security awareness and actions. This section covers our research reports over time and related publications.

Cyber security behavioural research