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Analysing the informational vulnerabilities of liberal democracies

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CENTRE FOR EPISTEMIC SECURITY

An Australian think tank undertaking doctrinal and strategic research on
informational, cognitive, grey-zone and hybrid threats targeting liberal
democracies

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> “The mind has no firewall.”
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> — Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office of the
> US Army

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ABOUT US




The Centre for Epistemic Security aims to explore the quirky, esoteric linkages
between information operations and cyber operations. It plans to take
a cognitive-first approach towards understanding cyber effects and power
projection by foreign adversaries.

An Australian organisation, the think tank would create doctrinal, strategic and
operational constructs to tackle hybrid, grey-zone or sub-threshold warfare. Its
founders believe that the true potency of cyber operations lies largely in the
cognitive or informational domain.

The Centre seeks to decompose the underlying parameters of a state’s
relationship to digitised information. It would then reinterpret a nation and
its society as an epistemic construct — as a product of information and
information alone. It analyses the peculiar informational vulnerabilities of
liberal democracies, trying to rearticulate cyber policy from that lens.

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AREAS OF RESEARCH






COMPARATIVE DOCTRINAL RESEARCH

> A study of the (de)evolution of the information operations doctrines of
> Western militaries, compared to the likes of Russia and China. A modern
> reinterpretation of competition and sub-threshold conflict in a
> whole-of-government way.


INFORMATION OPERATIONS AS AN INTEGRATING FUNCTION

> Delineating the strategic and tactical parameters of cyber-enabled information
> operations (IO), how they undermine IO’s integrating function — creating
> friction between cyber operations and IO.


CYBER-PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS & COUNTER-PROPAGANDA

> Frameworks and methodologies for counterpropaganda in a non-permissive
> environment like cyberspace. Analysing the legal and ethical constraints of
> liberal democracies from a fresh lens.


CUSTOMARY LAWS & CYBER NORMS

> An exploration of the tacit or explicit bargaining being undertaken by states
> in cyberspace and how it is leading to the creation of unfavourable customary
> laws that are setting the wrong precedents for the international rules-based
> order.


THREAT INTELLIGENCE TAXONOMIES & ONTOLOGIES

> Understanding if the structural probabilities of the cyberspace architecture,
> propagation and network effects could be leveraged to create threat
> intelligence ontologies or taxonomies based on standards like MITRE ATT&CK and
> STIX/TAXII.


MEDIA RELATIONS & THE SOCIAL TERRAIN

> An epistemic reinterpretation of the social/discursive space of societies and
> nations shaped by cyberspace, drawing upon the established military paradigms
> of information sampling, feedback loops and behavioural shaping.

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NEWS & ANALYSIS





AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE COLLEGE: ESSAY

Our director Pukhraj Singh's essay got published by the Australian Defence
College's online...
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SARA-JAYNE TERP JOINS THE CENTRE FOR EPISTEMIC SECURITY AS AN ADVISOR

We are proud to announce that Sara-Jayne Terp -- known for her
ground-breaking...
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OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: CYFY 2021 PANEL DISCUSSION

Pukhraj Singh of the Centre for Epistemic Security speaks at a panel
discussion...
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AUSTRALIAN STRATEGIC POLICY INSTITUTE: OPINION PIECE

Pukhraj Singh of the Centre for Epistemic Security writes for the Australian
Strategic...
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Centre for Epistemic Security Pty Ltd

ACN: 656571854

2091/38 Hope Street, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia

+61-7-3102-9700

info@epistemicsecurity.org

We acknowledge that the Centre for Epistemic Security gathers on unceded
Aboriginal land, on the territories of Jagera, Yuggera and Turrbal peoples. We
pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and to other First Nations
people and communities in Meanjin. Sovereignty was never ceded. Read the Uluru
Statement.

Centre for Epistemic Security @epistemicsec ·
June 28, 2022


Our director Pukhraj Singh's essay got published by the Australian Defence
College's (@ADC_Australia) online hub The Forge: "Counterpropaganda is Not a
Dirty Word" https://theforge.defence.gov.au/publications/counterpropagan...

Centre for Epistemic Security @epistemicsec ·
June 16, 2022


We are proud to announce that redoubtable Sara-Jayne Terp (@bodaceacat) -- known
for her ground-breaking work on the ontologies and taxonomies of disinformation
-- has joined the Centre for Epistemic Security as an advisor:
https://buff.ly/3mQbx5S



Centre for Epistemic Security @epistemicsec ·
December 12, 2021


While this report doesn't surprise us, we are committed to preserving
Australia's epistemic and cognitive security. We strive to analyse the
informational vulnerabilities of liberal democracies in light of the emerging
hybrid or sub-threshold threats https://buff.ly/31TT6pU

Centre for Epistemic Security @epistemicsec ·
December 7, 2021


Pukhraj Singh of the Centre for Epistemic Security writes for the Australian
Strategic Policy Institute. https://buff.ly/3ouWG2n



Centre for Epistemic Security @epistemicsec ·
December 7, 2021


Pukhraj Singh of the Centre for Epistemic Security speaks at a panel discussion
of CyFy 2021, organised by the Observer Research Foundation.
https://buff.ly/3IlvPxL



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