RESEARCH
From Theory to Tactical Cognitive Standards
Our research incubator bridges the gap between academic insight and real-world application. By unifying open standards, shared data, and interdisciplinary expertise, we're shaping the field of cognitive security one breakthrough at a time.
Active Projects
Our active research projects push boundaries and produce actionable tools for practitioners, policymakers, and educators.
Cognitive Attack Taxonomy (CAT)
The CAT is a shared reference framework designed to classify and understand cognitive threats across domains.
It considers cognitive vulnerabilities, exploits, tactics/techniques, tools, and procedures, relative to cognitive processing in the broadest possible sense within biological (humans and animals) and artificial (embodied and virtual) cognitive systems at all levels. Cognition from this perspective refers to information processing systems, which may, or may not, include awareness, consciousness, or sentience.
Evil Digital Twin
Evil Digital Twin is an ongoing talk series by Dr. Vindy Sawyer and Dr. Matthew Canham. It equips the cybersecurity practitioner community to understand the cognitive security implications of human digital twins, agentic systems, and digital cognitive agents. The series bridges current research with real-world practitioner concerns at the intersection of cognitive security, AI capability, and adversarial system design.
Cognitive Security Research Library
Access white papers, reports, frameworks, and foundational documents from our team and contributors. Open knowledge for an open future.
