README — Section Documentation
Everything about this section: its purpose, structure, how to navigate it, the citation style, how the fast-moving AI material is kept current, and the licence that governs reuse.
1. About this section
This is the Cybersecurity branch of the research area on lukesimmonsnz.kiwi — a self-contained reference spanning the field from first principles to the present day:
- Foundations — the CIA triad, threat modelling, cryptography, access control, network security, and defence in depth.
- Offensive Security — attacker tradecraft, malware, web and memory-corruption exploitation, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Defensive Security — the SOC, detection, incident response, zero trust, hardening, and vulnerability management.
- AI & Security — how machine learning is reshaping both sides, including the 2026 Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing developments.
It is built to the same template as the Computer Science branch and complements it — the cryptography, networking, and OS material there is assumed background here.
2. Section structure
The branch lives under /research/cybersecurity/:
- Foundations — index & overview; the conceptual bedrock
- Offensive Security — how systems are attacked
- Defensive Security — how systems are defended
- AI & Security — AI as tool, target, and disruptor
- References — full bibliography (APA 7th ed.)
- README — this page
3. Navigation guide
Use the sub-nav above to move between pages in the branch; breadcrumbs move you back up to the Research index or home. Each content page opens with a Table of Contents linking to its sections via anchor IDs, and inline citations are superscript bracketed numbers that jump to the matching entry on the References page. The intended reading order is Foundations → Offensive → Defensive → AI & Security.
4. Currency & the “this morning” material
Most of this branch covers durable fundamentals that change slowly. The AI & Security page is the exception: it covers events that were still unfolding at the time of writing (the Claude Mythos preview and the Project Glasswing expansion of June 2026).
That page is explicitly dated and its time-sensitive claims were gathered from live primary and news sources at the moment of writing, not from any model’s training data — indeed, the assistant that drafted it had no prior knowledge of Mythos. Treat the timeline as a contemporaneous briefing that will age: follow the citations to the primary Anthropic publications and dated reporting before relying on any figure.
5. Citation style
References follow APA 7th edition, consistent with the rest of the research area. Standards (NIST, FIPS, RFC) and foundational papers carry DOIs or stable URLs; news items covering 2026 events link to the original reporting and are clearly distinguished from primary publications.
6. License
The original text, tables, and code examples in this section are released under CC BY 4.0; embedded code snippets are additionally available under the MIT Licence. Cited third-party works remain under their original copyrights.