From research to platform
Cyber Innovations Group Ltd was founded in 2024 on a simple observation: most cyber incidents succeed because of what people do or do not do under pressure, yet most cyber training still treats human behaviour as an afterthought. We were founded to change that.
Starting as a pre-spin-out from Bournemouth University, we have built our products alongside active research, validated our approach through funded pilots, and developed an original framework — the Human Layer Kill Chain — that gives our work a more rigorous foundation than generic awareness or human risk language alone.
We are now a platform-first business. Our flagship product, CFA Toolkit featuring AINGEL, is designed to become the practical operating system for human-layer cyber resilience in SMEs, charities, and regulated organisations across the UK and beyond.
The Team
Emily Rosenorn-Lanng
Emily leads strategy, product development, commercial partnerships, and investor engagement at Cyber Innovations Group Ltd. She is completing a doctoral thesis in human-layer cyber resilience at Bournemouth University, examining how game-based learning, sociotechnical frameworks, and psychological resilience models can be translated into practical organisational tools.
Emily brings together experience in cybersecurity education, research design, grant management, and early-stage company building. She is a Cyber Runway Grow alumna, a CyberASAP graduate, and was selected for the DSIT Cyber Security US Trade Mission as one of 16 UK companies identified as having strong international commercial potential.
Professor Vasilis Katos
Vasilis is Professor of Cybersecurity at Bournemouth University and leads the university’s Security Operations Centre of the Future research programme. He provides the technical and research leadership behind Cyber Innovations Group Ltd’s products, including the Human Layer Kill Chain framework and the research direction of the AINGEL capability within the CFA Toolkit.
His expertise spans cybersecurity, digital forensics, human factors in security, and the intersection of behavioural science and cyber defence. His research has been published in leading international journals and informs the evidence base that distinguishes our products from conventional awareness training.
What guides how we work
- Evidence over assertion. We build on research and validate with real data rather than making claims we cannot support.
- Human-centred by design. Our products treat the human layer as a serious operational domain, not a compliance checkbox.
- Commercial and social value together. We build products that are commercially sustainable and that genuinely improve people’s ability to navigate cyber risk.
- Accessible and practical. We design for real organisations and real people, not for specialists or large enterprise budgets.
Validated by and working with
Innovate UK
Cyber Local: Dorset programme funder and ongoing innovation partner.
Bournemouth University
Academic research collaboration, BU-CERT and pre-spin-out relationship.
Dorset Chamber of Commerce
SME network and pilot delivery partner.
Dorset Mind
Mental health and wellbeing integration partner.
DSIT
Cyber Security US Trade Mission participant, CyberASAP alumnus.
Mountside Ventures
DSIT-funded investment placement programme.
Cyber Runway
Grow accelerator cohort participant.
