Royce J. Porter

Royce J. Porter is a U.S. Army veteran and independent researcher focused on cognitive security, social engineering detection, and adversarial manipulation of human and AI decision systems. His work explores how psychological influence techniques, deception strategies, and AI exploitation methods can be modeled and detected as part of defensive cyber operations.

He is currently developing CATSCAN (Cognitive Attack Taxonomy Scanner), a research platform designed to operationalize the Cognitive Attack Taxonomy (CAT) developed by Dr. Matthew Canham. CATSCAN analyzes digital communications and AI prompts to identify cognitive attack patterns, including phishing, social engineering, disinformation, and prompt injection.

The system combines persuasion signal detection and structural pattern analysis to identify manipulation strategies and map them to security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE ATLAS.

His research interests include cognitive warfare, human-machine teaming in cyber defense, and the development of tools that improve detection of influence operations and AI manipulation attempts in modern hybrid threat environments.