Cognitive Warfare Has Entered the SOC. What it is, How to Respond
Information overload, cognitive warfare, and nonstop digital noise are turning human attention into a vulnerable attack surface.
Alert Fatigue
Have We Already Had a Cognitive Pearl Harbor?
Winn Schwartau warned of a “Digital Pearl Harbor” decades ago and is now raising a more unsettling possibility: the real attack may already be underway, targeting human perception itself.
Security Teams Are Fighting the Wrong DDoS: The One Happening in Their Heads
Security teams have spent years trying to reduce alert fatigue, but the real bottleneck isn’t tooling, but the human brain’s inability to process the volume of information being thrown at it.
CYBR.HAK.CAST Episode 13: Winn Schwartau
Winn Schwartau argues that the biggest threat facing defenders isn’t just technical, but cognitive: overwhelming information flows that push humans into “mental DDoS.” He has introduced the concept of “critical ignoring” as a prerequisite to critical thinking.