# Cognitive Security Cognitive security is the protection of the conditions under which people and institutions perceive, interpret, deliberate, and decide. It addresses manipulation of attention, trust, identity, provenance, emotional response, and shared reality—not by attempting to control thought, but by protecting agency and the integrity of the information environment. Practical measures include provenance, media literacy, anomaly detection, trusted communication, cognitive inoculation, channel integrity, contestable analysis, and resilient public institutions. The defensive objective is not enforced agreement. It is preserving a person's ability to evaluate claims without covert distortion or manufactured epistemic exhaustion. Related: [[wiki/Information Warfare|Information Warfare]], [[wiki/Cognitive Inoculation|Cognitive Inoculation]], [[wiki/Narrative Integrity|Narrative Integrity]], [[wiki/Institutional Trust|Institutional Trust]]. ## Relationships - **Source-study context:** [[wiki/Cognitive Warfare|François du Cluzel's study]] articulates a military argument for protecting and contesting cognition. Its disclaimer limits official NATO attribution, not the relevance of its analysis. - **Defensive route:** [[wiki/Cognitive Inoculation|Cognitive Inoculation]], [[wiki/Information Warfare|Information Warfare]], [[collections/Gamification|Gamification]], and [[articles/The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State|The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State]] address environment design and defensive agency. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts From [[wiki/Cognitive Warfare|Cognitive Warfare]]: The passage is the author’s forecast of future military competition, not NATO doctrine. > "The future battlefield will depend not only upon achieving 'biological dominance', but achieving 'mental/cognitive dominance' and 'intelligence dominance' as well." > **— François du Cluzel**, *2020, Cognitive Warfare, Innovation Hub study, p. 23* [[reminders/Capture/Battlefield Dominance Could Become Cognitive by François du Cluzel|Battlefield Dominance Could Become Cognitive by François du Cluzel]] From [[wiki/Cognitive Warfare|Cognitive Warfare]]: The conclusion makes the author’s strategic warning, not an official NATO forecast. > "Failing to thwart the cognitive efforts of NATO's opponents would condemn Western liberal societies to lose the next war without a fight." > **— François du Cluzel**, *2020, Cognitive Warfare, Innovation Hub study, p. 36* [[reminders/Capture/A Cognitive Defeat Might Come Without a Fight by François du Cluzel|A Cognitive Defeat Might Come Without a Fight by François du Cluzel]]