Source : https://notes.nitinpai.in/Concepts/Cognitive+Security
Definition
Cognitive Security refers to practices, methodologies, and efforts made to defend against social engineering attempts‒intentional and unintentional manipulations of and disruptions to cognition and sensemaking. (Cognitive Security and Education Forum)
Notes
- Concepts such as cognitive security and Narrative warfare Guerre des histoires are consistent with my idea on what information warfare really it. It’s about hacking minds for political purposes.
- According to Rand Waltzman of the RAND Corporation, this field focuses on
- “a continual arms race to influence—and protect from influence—large groups of users online.”
- this is different from the conventional cybersecurity definition of cognitive security in three ways:
- it is concerned with “the exploitation of cognitive biases in large public groups”
- with “social influence as an end in itself”
- “emphasizes formality and quantitative measurement”
- this is different from the conventional cybersecurity definition of cognitive security in three ways:
- Cognitive security can counter the The Gerasimov Doctrine