According to CASOS (2019), “Social-Cybersecurity is an emerging scientific area focused on the science to characterize, understand, and forecast changes in human behavior, social, cultural and political outcomes, and to build the cyber-infrastructure needed for society to persist in its essential character in a cyber mediated information environment under changing conditions and actual or imminent cyber threats.” According to Carley (2020), “Social cybersecurity is distinct from cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is focused on machines and how computers and databases can be compromised, whereas social cybersecurity is focused on humans and how these humans can be compromised, converted, and relegated to the unimportant. Cybersecurity experts are expected to understand technology, computer science, and engineering, while social cybersecurity experts are expected to understand social communication and community building, statistics, social networks, and machine learning.” Carley (2020), also discussed seven core areas of social cybersecurity, which are: Social Cyber-Forensics, which is identifying who is conducting social cybersecurity attacks; Information Maneuvers, which is understanding strategies used to conduct an attack and the intent of those strategies; Motive Identification, which is understanding the intent of a perpetrators’ motive; Diffusion, which is tracing, and even predicting, the spread of an influence campaign; Effectiveness of Information Campaigns, which is quantifying the effectiveness of the social cybersecurity attack; Mitigation, which is understanding how a social cybersecurity attack be countered or mitigated and understanding how communities can become resilient to attacks; and Governance, which is understanding what policies and laws are needed so the people can continue to use the internet without fear of undue influence for the sake of informed democracy. With social cybersecurity being a new area of focus, the military needs to understand this area being that disinformation and misinformation are being utilized to bring mistrust between the government and its society. If internal trust is broken within a country, there is no way they will be able to be united and successfully win against an adversary.

Sources:
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/Mar-Apr-2019/117-Cybersecurity/b/
https://cfds.fisipol.ugm.ac.id/2021/09/08/the-emergence-of-social-cybersecurity-what-is-it-all-about/
http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/projects/social_cyber_security.php#:~:text=Social%2DCybersecurity%20is%20an%20emerging,in%20a%20cyber%20mediated%20information
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10588-020-09322-9