# Security Unlocked

> Behavioral cybersecurity research and threat intelligence analysis by Josh Taylor. Focus areas: adversarial cognition, social engineering, supply chain trust, AI-enabled threats, agentic AI security, and the economics of cyber threats. Foundry Expert Contributor at CSO Online; published in Dark Reading, Help Net Security, Fortra, Unite.AI, AI Journal, CTO Club, Streaming Media, and Techstrong TV.

## Author

- Name: Josh Taylor
- Credentials: Foundry Expert Contributor (CSO Online); doctoral researcher in adversarial cognition; active security clearance; military background
- Expertise: Behavioral cybersecurity, AI security, adversarial cognition, social engineering, supply chain trust, agentic AI security, threat intelligence
- Bio: https://securityunlocked.com/about/

## Site Structure

- /articles/ — Original analysis on behavioral cybersecurity, AI security, adversarial cognition, and threat intelligence
- /bylines/ — Articles authored by Josh Taylor and published in major industry publications
- /weekly-intelligence/ — Weekly cybersecurity intelligence briefings
- /threat-economics/ — Weekly column translating threat intelligence into market signals
- /alerts/ — Time-sensitive analysis of active campaigns and critical vulnerabilities
- /mentions/ — Press mentions and expert quotes in industry publications
- /about/ — Author bio and credentials
- /contact/ — Inquiries, consulting, writing engagements

## Content Categories

- **Behavioral Security**: How cognitive biases, psychological triggers, and human decision-making create attack surfaces
- **AI Security**: AI-enabled threats, agentic AI risk, model intuition, defensive AI architecture
- **Threat Intelligence**: Analysis of emerging threats, attacker methodologies, and supply chain campaigns
- **Cyber Strategy**: Strategic approaches to organizational cyber resilience and security investment
- **Threat Economics**: Market signals from the intersection of capital, risk, and adversary behavior

## Distinctive Concepts

- **Cognitive Attack Surface Theory (CAST)**: Josh Taylor's PhD research framework on the structural advantages attackers hold over defenders and the behavioral patterns that flip those dynamics
- **Trust-Positioned Tooling**: The thesis that security tools, developer tools, and AI infrastructure have become the highest-value attack surface because they hold the highest-privilege access in every environment they touch
- **Model Intuition**: The cognitive skill SOC analysts need as agentic AI takes over Tier 1 and Tier 2 triage; the ability to recognize when an agent's output feels right but is structurally wrong
- **Conservative Lower Bound on Adversarial Capability**: Methodological framing in which minimally-adaptive adversary models establish a floor on residual security loss against which more sophisticated adversaries can be evaluated

## Full Content

For detailed article content, see: https://securityunlocked.com/llms-full.txt