Houston, TX – PsyberCog Labs, which sits at the intersection of human behavior, cognitive science, and cybersecurity strategy, today announced its official launch alongside two flagship offerings: PATH™, a behavioral risk operating framework, and PATHMap™, a companion analytics platform that visualizes human risk across the enterprise.
Founded by cybersecurity executive and behavioral scientist Dr. Dustin Sachs, PsyberCog Labs partners with CISOs, CROs, CAEs, and CPOs. The organization’s mission is to close the persistent gap between security strategy on paper and human behavior in practice.
“Our problem in cybersecurity is not a shortage of tools. It is a shortage of behavioral clarity,” said Dr. Dustin Sachs, Founder and CEO of PsyberCog Labs and author of Behavioral Insights in Cybersecurity: A Guide to Digital Human Factors (2025).
“Incidents are rarely just ‘technical failures.’ They are human failures under cognitive load, conflicting incentives, and decision fatigue. With PsyberCog Labs, PATH™, and PATHMap™, we help leaders design security programs that are built around how people actually think, decide, and behave.”
Introducing PATH: A Behavioral Operating System for Cyber Risk
PATH™ is PsyberCog Labs’ proprietary behavioral operating system for cyber and privacy risk. PATH™ stands for Predict, Assess, Train, and Harden. It is designed to make human behavior a measurable, manageable component of security programs rather than an assumed variable.
Most security frameworks define what controls should exist. PATH™ explains whether those controls will actually work when real people interact with them under pressure. It converts cognitive science and behavioral economics into an execution layer that security, risk, and privacy leaders can operate across governance, operations, and culture.
Introducing PATHMap: Visualizing Human Risk Across Enterprise Domains
To complement the PATH™ framework, PsyberCog Labs has developed PATHMap™, an analytics and mapping platform that helps leaders see where human risk is concentrated, emerging, or improving over time.
PATHMap aggregates qualitative and quantitative indicators such as:
- Behavioral risk assessment data
- Incident and near-miss patterns
- Training performance and engagement
- Process friction and exception patterns
- Role-based cognitive load and decision fatigue indicators
The result is an executive-ready view of:
- High-risk workflows where human error is most likely under pressure
- Cultural “hot spots” where norms conflict with stated security expectations
- Areas where simple nudges or process redesign can yield outsized risk reduction
“Security leaders have dashboards for vulnerabilities, assets, and alerts,” said Dr. Sachs. “PATHMap™ gives them a dashboard for human behavior and culture. It shows where people are being set up to fail and where you can redesign the system so secure behavior becomes the easiest behavior.”
Bridging Strategy, Culture, and Execution
PsyberCog Labs is built around a single premise: cybersecurity is a human system, not just a technical problem. The organization’s offerings are designed to integrate seamlessly with existing security, risk, and audit programs.
“Boards and executive teams are asking tougher questions about culture, resilience, and risk maturity,” Dr. Sachs added. “PsyberCog Labs exists to give CISOs, CROs, CAEs, and CPOs a rigorous way to answer those questions with behavioral evidence, not just technical metrics.”
Availability
PsyberCog Labs is now accepting customers for PATHScan™ behavioral risk assessments and access to the PATHMap™ platform. Organizations can contact PsyberCog Labs directly (sales@psybercog.com).