The Internet has come a long way in a relatively short period of time but so too has cybercrime, ushering in a new awareness for how vulnerable the world is to the rise of a new business model: "the Hacker Industry," where the product being bought and sold is personal confidential and business data and the currency is encrypted Bitcoins. Hackers have shifted from hard targets to a much softer target in organizations ... the human mind. Cognitive Hack: The New Battleground in Cybersecurity ... the Human Mind explores dual competing narrative arcs: the first is the rise of the "Hacker" as an industry; the other is an emerging new science called Cognitive Security ("CogSec") as a new stratagem for cybersecurity. The book follows the digital footprint of cybersecurity through stories, research, and news accounts to put these changes in context. Cognitive Hack grew out of a passion for creating cost-effective and intuitive risk management solutions by bringing to light a quiet revolution taking place at the most vulnerable point in network computing: the intersection of human-machine interactions. Advances in cognitive computing, Intelligence and Security Informatics, and a new science called "Cognitive Security" will transform our perceptions of risk and security in ways unimaginable today. Human behavior ("cognition") is the greatest vulnerability in cybersecurity, while simultaneously paving the way for the best opportunity to build better security. Cognitive Hack sheds light on why hackers are so successful at stealing our personal confidential and business data in the face of a massive arms race by business and government to prevent them. Cognitive Hack is more than that: it follows the digital trail of cybercrime to unexpected places to find innovative new approaches to the cyber paradox. The findings are surprising, as is the new science being created to defend us against one of the most elusive adversaries the world has ever seen-the rise of the hacker. Book jacket.