Independent digital forensics, eDiscovery and expert witness services for solicitors, insurers and the courts. Incident command, coordination and threat actor negotiation for organisations under attack.
Secure Personal AI Research Kit.
A framework for building MCP servers that handle large data.
Settings, secrets and logging for Python applications.
Template-based Jira Cloud project deployment.
Cognisn is the independent practice of Matthew Westwood-Hill, a Cyber Security practitioner with more than twenty years in digital forensics and incident response. He led the Privacy and Cyber Response, Computer Forensic and eDiscovery practice for Oceania at EY, was Principal Investigator at CyberCX, led the security function at SBS, and most recently served as a Global CISO.
He has led the first hours of incidents, negotiated with threat actors, given evidence, and built the tooling to handle large evidence sets when commercial products fell short. The software published here is the same software used on engagements.
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