BlackLattice: The Architecture of Sovereign Cyber Defense: A Research Monograph on Civilian-Scale Cyber Resilience, Biometric Trust, Open Intelligence, and Forensic Evidence Preservation

BlackLattice: The Architecture of Sovereign Cyber Defense presents a public-interest research architecture for human-scale cyber defense: the protection of people and civil-society institutions whose digital exposure exceeds ordinary consumer-security assumptions.The book begins from a rights-centered premise: in a networked society, privacy, safety, evidence, and recovery are practical conditions for civic participation. Cyber defense is therefore treated not as a product category, but as a disciplined way to preserve agency, reduce harm, and support accountable response.Across 37 chapters, Christian Kearney develops the BlackLattice model as a layered framework combining detection architecture, open-intelligence context, local trust controls, biometric authorization, cryptocurrency transaction risk review, mobile spyware analysis, forensic evidence preservation, and recovery planning. The work emphasizes uncertainty, proportional response, privacy governance, and evidence integrity rather than absolute claims of prevention.This monograph is written for cybersecurity researchers, digital-forensics practitioners, civil-society defenders, policy professionals, privacy advocates, and technical readers interested in how advanced defense can be designed for people who may not have a security operations center, enterprise budget, or institutional protection.BlackLattice rejects promotional security rhetoric. Its central claim is practical and civic: defensive systems should help targeted people remain informed, protected, and capable of recovery under conditions of uncertainty. Read more