Protecting Individuals & Organizations From Cognitive Threats
Defending truth, trust and perception.
WHY WE EXIST
The human mind is the real battlefield.
"Cybersecurity is like a fortress—strong walls mean nothing if the gatekeeper can be deceived. It's not just networks being hacked, it's our minds."
With more than 90% of cyber attacks exploiting human cognitive
vulnerabilities, it’s clear the battlefield isn’t just technical; it’s psychological. The human mind is both the first line of defense, and our most targeted asset. It's also the least defended attack surface.
The MindShield Institute exists to defend human minds in cyberspace.
We train leaders in cybersecurity, psychology, and human behavior to understand, predict, and outmaneuver digital manipulation, social engineering, and cognitive threats—before they happen.
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Traditional cybersecurity is an incomplete picture.
The threats of AI-driven phishing, social engineering, misinformation and dark design patterns meshed with the fast evolution of artificial intelligence, immersive environments and neuro-technologies (like Neuralink) are fundamentally changing the nature and scope the nature of 'cyber threats'.
This calls for the evolution of traditional, purely technical-focused cybersecurity solutions-- towards an expanded holistic model of security that includes the human sciences of psychology, behavior and influence.
MindShield’s pioneering approach blends cybersecurity and human sciences to create a new approach to defense called Cognitive Security (CogSec), aiming to mitigate these vulnerabilities while simultaneously fostering mental health and resilience in the face of these exponential technologies.
WHAT WE DO
We're training the Cognitive Security leaders of tomorrow.
“The sphere of operations, influence, and control will expand from the physical and the information domain to the domain of consciousness; the human brain will become a new combat space.”
—HeFuchu, Vice President of the PLA’s Academy of Military Sciences