winn schwartau
The “Civilian Architect of Information Warfare”
“Electronic Pearl Harbor Prophet”
“National Security Imperative for Cognitive Defense: We are defenseless.”
“The grandfather of security awareness.”
Winn has lived cybersecurity and warping minds since 1983. His creative and original thinking has inspired decades of predictions about the internet, technology, privacy, & security, which have been scarily spot on. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” in 1991 and has authored a wide array of publications, including the seminal book, “Information Warfare.”
Now he takes on Cognitive Security in his new book, "The Art & Science of Metawar”. He examines how humans must strengthen our cognitive defenses against AI-driven reality distortion, TMI/disinformation, manipulation, and algorithmic addictions.
He currently spends most of his time as Director of Special Projects for the Cognitive Security Institute. He is especially interested in the intersection of cybersecurity and cognitive security. The vast similarities between silicon and carbon systems offer cognitive defenders an existing framework for strengthening our mental immunity systems against information pathogens at the national, enterprise, and personal levels. The security, privacy, ethics, and global policy implications are staggering.
His last book, “Analogue Network Security” is a time-based approach to justifiable security. “It will twist your mind.” “The Best Cybersecurity Book of All Time,” Cyber Defense Magazine.
• Dir. Special Projects, Cognitive Security Institute
• Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts
• Distinguished Fellow: Ponemon Institute
• International Security Hall of Fame: ISSA
• Lifetime Achievement Award, DefCon XXXI
• Top-20 industry pioneers: SC Magazine.
• Top 25 Most Influential: Security Magazine
• Top 5 Security Thinkers: SC Magazine.
• Power Thinker and one of the 50 most powerful people: Network World.
• 30 Year DefCon Goon (Ret.)
• Top Rated (4.85/5) RSA Speaker
• Top Rated Webinar: 4.56 (ISC2)
• .001% Top Influencer RSAC
• Global Power Speaker
• US Patent: 11,438,369 (Time-Based Security)
Author: “Time-Based Security,” “Pearl Harbor Dot Com” (Die Hard IV), the world's first novel-on-the-net 1993, Project Gutenberg), 3 volumes of “Information Warfare”, “CyberShock”, “Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids” (The Best Security Book Ever Written, Dr. Fred Cohen) and a few more.
Publisher: Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, James K. Campbell ISBN: 0-962-8700-3-X, 1977
The Mind of the Hacker, Dr. Nick Chandler (Maj. Australian military intelligence) 1999
Executive Producer: “Hackers Are People Too”, “VR Babies in the Metaverse”,
Founder: The Security Awareness Company, Hacker Jeopardy, Security Experts, Security Insider Report, InfowarCon, et al. Former recording engineer and producer.
www.WinnSchwartau.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winn_Schwartau
https://www.linkedin.com/in/winnschwartau/
Session
The cognitive defensive space is a clear-cut mess with competing taxonomies, lack of cooperation, and little academic investigation, leaving its pursuit a chaos of people talking past each other.
Expanding on the Metawar Thesis and through the prism of cybersecurity, Schwartau cuts through all of the crap and examines the three most significant issues in cognitive defense. Some people may find it disturbing, pull them out of their comfort zone, or just offensive.
This talk focuses on three fundamental interlocking issues that we must conquer if we have any hope of developing national enterprise or personal cognitive defense. TMI-Noise, Critical Ignoring, and Bullshit.
The goal is strengthening the mental immune system. You do not want to miss this session: It will mess with your minds.