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 multi-provider LLM interface with MCP tools, voice chat, persistent memory and autonomous scheduled actions.
Python framework for building MCP servers, with response spooling for large tool outputs, hierarchical tool prefixing and skills guide tools.
Multi-account AWS security scanning and infrastructure ledger with Prowler integration, taggable scan history and an MCP server for querying scan data.
Layered settings management, pluggable secrets backends and run-scoped logging for cross-platform Python applications.
Template-based Jira Cloud project deployment and management over the REST API v3.
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 currently holds a Global CISO role.
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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