As seen online:
“In 1991, Winn Schwartau, the civilian architect of information warfare postulated cyberwar in front of US Congress. Today, he warns that America faces a national security crisis; a cognitive Pearl Harbor waiting to happen. The lack of a national security imperative to strengthen our population's mental immune systems and our ability to coexist with technology makes America's cognitive infrastructure essentially defenseless.”
— from Cybersecurity’s New Imperative: Defending Enterprise and National Cognitive Infrastructures (by strengthening the mental immune system) :: Bsides London 2024 :: pretalx as of 18 October 2025