Toward Stress-Adaptive Cyber Defense: Cognitive–Physiological Synchronization in IoT Environments

Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts experience notable performance degradation under elevated cognitive stress, yet existing systems treat stress detection and decision support as separate problems. This paper presents a Cognitive–Physiological Synchronization (CPS) Framework for IoT-based Security Operations Centers (IoT-SOCs) that integrates multimodal physiological stress inference with cognitive decision-making agents to enable real-time, uncertainty-aware action selection in cybersecu