Cognitive INFOSEC

This paper characterizes technology challenges of Cognitive Information Security (INFOSEC). This far-term vision re-invents software radio as a "trusted" cognitive agent for the consumer or the military. Cognitive radio (CR) is software radio employing cognition technology to enhance information services for the user. Cognitive INFOSEC (CI) employs the cognition technology to achieve a high level of trust. Hardware needs for CI are substantially more demanding than for software radio. CI hardware includes non-RF sensors such as binaural audio, stereo video, biometrics and accelerometers. CR also needs multiband, multimode RF capabilities. This leads to interesting new microwave hardware design tradeoffs. Cognition sensors may share system on chip (SoC) subsystems with INFOSEC hardware, location-awareness sensors, and RF hardware in wearable formats. This paper provides far-term concepts of operations, suggesting new SoC tradeoffs and related technology challenges.