Human-Empowered AI Cybersecurity
Think First, Verify Always
The AI Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift
As organizations strengthen technical defenses, the threat landscape has dramatically shifted toward human cognitive domains. Recent evidence shows that 60% of security breaches stem from human factors (Verizon 2025), with AI-enabled threats now posing systemic risks to critical infrastructure.
Traditional cybersecurity frameworks focus on systems and devices, but AI now operates at the core of human cognition, generating expert discourse, distilling legal corpora, and providing real-time guidance in high-stakes environments. This creates an entirely new attack surface that technical controls alone cannot defend.
Framework Domains
HCSK is organized into 9 key human-centric cybersecurity domains with 158 actionable controls to defend against AI threats.
Humans as “Firewall Zero” Against AI Threats
HCSK reconceptualizes humans as ‘Firewall Zero’ – the first line of cognitive defense against sophisticated AI-enabled attacks. Rather than viewing humans as security liabilities, HCSK provides a structured framework for transforming people into active defenders against AI manipulation.
When generative AI can create synthetic media indistinguishable from reality, manipulate emotional responses, and bypass technical security layers through social engineering, human judgment becomes the critical differentiator between security and compromise.