To summarize emerging as part of our national security, social cybersecurity toys with understanding and predicting human behavior. The intention is to grasp better how changes in society will occur from the internet. Deeply strategic, it targets beliefs and ideas through technology. Information warfare has evolved into an independent conflict form. Actors use it to shape narratives, disrupt societies, and weaken trust in institutions and values. Everything we’ve ever known about cybersecurity will only do us a little good here. Social cybersecurity uses various disciplines to manipulate social dynamics into desired outcomes — all intended to influence people without meeting them face-to-face. These tactics work so well because of technology’s ability for information to flow freely through numerous decentralized platforms, including social media ones. With bots as force multipliers, cyber maneuvers can be executed from angles that make things seem much different than they are — giving manipulators a substantial upper hand on the truth. Military leaders must understand this strategy to defend themselves against manipulation while influencing others simultaneously — even if it’s not always ethical or within legal bounds.

Work Cited

Social Cybersecurity an emerging national security requirement. Army University Press. (n.d.). https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/Mar-Apr-2019/117-Cybersecurity/b/