This book presents the latest research in cognitive security a rapidly emerging field that
addresses the vulnerabilities in human behavior and cognition that can lead to Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPS) compromise. This book demonstrates that as adversaries increasingly use
manipulative and deceptive information to disrupt human cognitive processes including
sensation attention memory and mental operations humans are misled into fallacious
reasoning and manipulated decisions that can lead to system-level meltdown. Cognitive security
aims to protect humans from the exploitation of cognitive vulnerabilities help them make
informed decisions that are free from manipulation and undue influence and mitigate the
aggravating risk in the ensuing steps of the attacker's kill chain. This book offers solutions
that work across different fields such as psychology neuroscience data science social
science and game theory to deal with cognitive threats. It guides the reader through the core
ideas with figures real-life examples and case studies. Moreover it formally defines all
research questions presents the results using mathematical theorems and proofs and obtains
insights through numerical validation. This book provides a self-contained and brief overview
of essential system-scientific tools for modeling analyzing and mitigating cognitive
vulnerabilities. The concepts of human cognitive capacities and cognitive vulnerabilities are
formally discussed followed by two case studies in the scenarios of reactive and proactive
attention vulnerabilities. This book provides insights and applications on this
transdisciplinary topic with the goal of motivating future research in this emerging area and
pushing the frontier of human-technology convergence. This book is a valuable reference for
researchers and advanced-level students studying or working in cognitive security and related
fields. It is also useful for decision-makers managers and professionals working within these
related fields.
