Background & Purpose: Cognitive warfare seeks to disrupt, debilitate, influence, or change human decision-making by targeting human cognition using technology. To face this war, cognitive readiness is a key characteristic which is highly dependent on the level of employees’ cognitive resilience. Hence the current manuscript was conducted to identify key factors affecting cognitive resilience and write possible scenarios of the employees’ cognitive readiness based on the level of cognitive resilience.

Methodology: This manuscript is developmental-applied which was conducted by the descriptive-causal method. The data was collected by the field-library method and analyzed by the combined methodology of Systematic Literature Review and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (in Python 3.11 and FCMapper software). The studied population includes all scientific texts and sources which have investigated the key factors affecting cognitive resilience and its relationship with cognitive readiness. In addition, the statistical population included the experts and professors in the fields of cognitive sciences and psychology. 17 people has been selected using judgmental sampling.

Findings: The Systematic Literature Review demonstrated the key factors affecting cognitive resilience including, "Behavioral Factors", "Neurocognitive Factors", "Supportive Organizational Factors" and "Cognitive-Social Factors" which affect employees' "cognitive readiness". In addition, the fuzzy cognitive map illustrated the most effective key factors of cognitive resilience were behavioral (3.35), neurocognitive (3.25), and supportive organizational (2.7) factors, respectively. The cognitive readiness (3.85) and cognitive resilience (3.35) had the most impressionable. Finally, three optimistic, pessimistic, and catastrophic scenarios were mapped for employees' cognitive readiness.

Conclusion: The scenarios indicated employees' cognitive readiness is predicted based on key factors of cognitive resilience in three situations: "steel shield", "brittle rock", and "rotten armor", which makes scenario-based planning essential for improving employees' cognitive readiness.