Advancing Cognitive Security in Extended Reality (XR) Systems
The Repository of Cognitive Attack Patterns (ReCAP) is a publicly accessible resource developed by Collins Aerospace as part of the Modeling and Analysis Toolkit for Realizable Intrinsic Cognitive Security (MATRICS), under DARPA’s Intrinsic Cognitive Security (ICS) program. ReCAP serves as an online knowledge base designed to enable the structured documentation, analysis, and dissemination of cognitive attacks, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies specific to extended reality (XR) systems.
ReCAP enables researchers, system developers, and security analysts to:
- Contribute to a structured, evolving taxonomy of cognitive attacks, defensed and vulnerabilities.
- Identify and analyze cognitive attack patterns in XR and mixed-reality systems.
- Explore relationships among attacks, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and assurance arguments.
- Support the elicitation of cognitive security guarantees during system design and evaluation.
The repository includes both published cognitive attack patterns and new patterns discovered through ongoing research in immersive technologies.
ReCAP is currently under construction and testing.
The initial release will feature:
- A validated cognitive attack classification schema
- An interactive user interface for browsing and contributing attack patterns
- Reference links to supporting research and documentation
- Collaboration tools for the research and practitioner community
Availability: The website will be available soon at the following URL: 🌐 [Web Address]
Contributions from the broader research community are highly encouraged to ensure ReCAP’s accuracy, relevance, and utility.
Community participation will help:
- Refine and expand the cognitive attack taxonomy
- Populate the knowledge base with real-world case studies
- Foster consensus on representing and analyzing cognitive security in XR systems
ReCAP emphasizes evidence-based security through:
- Clear reference links to academic publications, technical reports, and empirical studies
- Documentation of the source and rationale behind each attack pattern and mitigation
This ensures traceability, transparency, and reproducibility in the development of cognitive security frameworks.
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