Cognitive Warfare New Dates TBD, Fort Myers, Florida
Cognitive Warfare – Three day course cover aspects of Gray Zone Tactics, Disinformation, Influence Operations, Information Operations, Color Revolutions, Neuro-Linguistic Program, and of course, Cognitive Warfare.
LOCATION: Regus, Florida, Fort Myers - Forum Corporate 9160 Forum Corporate Parkway, Ft. Myers, 33905
- DESCRIPTION
Regus, Florida, Fort Myers - Forum Corporate
9160 Forum Corporate Parkway, Ft. Myers, 33905
The essence of cognitive confrontation is knowledge confrontation and intellectual competition. Adversaries need to have full cognition, deep understanding and rapid response to the cyber environment, threats, targets, and opponents, and the analysis, judgment, decision-making, will and other cognitive level. We will cover concepts in Cognitive Warfare, Gray Zone Tactics, Disinformation, Influence Operations, Information Operations, Color Revolutions, Neuro-Linguistic Program, Private Intelligence Firms, Psychological portrait according to the method of 7 radicals and more.
Ability, will directly affect cyber confrontations, the organization of the campaign, the decision of the strategy, and the trend and success or failure of the engagement. The concept of winning and losing in cognitive warfare has expanded from "hard damage to compete for battlefield space and focus on destroying the enemy's living forces" to "soft penetration affecting morale and people's hearts, and cognitive games interfering with the adversary's command and decision-making". Cognitive confrontation in human warfare will be upgraded from intellectual competition and knowledge confrontation between people to AI. But first, we as humans need to learn all we can about cognitive warfare.
We include review of cognitive warfare approaches, a potential framework, historical examples, rational processes, bias in perception and cognition, decision making and time pressures, domains of conflict and combatants, factors influencing decisions, speed and overload, manipulating situational awareness, inducing behavioral change using deception, distraction, distrust, chaos, and confusion.
Students learn to assess adversaries for susceptibility to cognitive weapons and what to observe for potential impacts. Students will learn methods of deception to deceive adversaries, distraction tactics, content creation for distrust, as well as methods of deployment. These methods are included in student created cognitive campaigns that are continuous from multiple vectors. Students will learn cognition of targets while understanding worlds of social media, information, intelligence, and other online vectors. We also cover the issues associated with measuring campaign effectiveness and influence analysis
Validated and registered students receive preparation information 1 week prior to class start.
Corporate accounts are not Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail, Hushmail, Protonmail, and the like). Treadstone 71 reserves the right to restrict course registration based upon certain risk factors. This course presents the student with foundational concepts and processes in the discipline of cyber counterintelligence with a focus on cyber counterintelligence missions, defensive counterintelligence, offensive counterintelligence, and counterespionage as these realms apply to traditional tradecraft, and how they are or will evolve into the cyber domain. The course includes a very different approach to counterintelligence using models exhibited online over the past few years to steer the conversation to the desired outcome
Target audience (who should attend):
This course is intended for
-Intelligence analysts, advanced analysts, those charged with peer review of reports, analytic writers, open-source intelligence collectors, researchers, cyber risk management professionals, incident response leadership, security operations leadership, CISO, CIO, students, cybercrime investigators, analytic report writers, recipients of internal and external intelligence (critical), curious professionals wishing to learn cyber intelligence tradecraft and intelligence strategies.
Requirements (knowledge pre-requisites)
Students should
-be familiar with Internet browsers, Office 365, general intelligence concepts
Hardware/Software Requirements
Students should have
-Laptop with administrative access, 8GB RAM, 100GB free hard drive space, Windows operating system works best but Mac with a VM for Windows works as well.
All course descriptions may be found at the following links
