Read this and write a journal entry summarizing your response to the article on social cybersecurity: https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/Mar-Apr-2019/117-Cybersecurity/b/

I feel that this article does a great job of addressing the importance of social cybersecurity, as well as fields where it’s most crucial. The article defined social cybersecurity as people being able to persuade one another using technology. Those fields of importance include government, warfare, and misinformation.

While social cybersecurity could be considered a new technology, it’s been used in several governments. For example, Russia and North Korea have been using social cybersecurity to keep their populations in check, and this method of propaganda has been in different forms since the 1950s. Within government, this technology can affect society, politics, and the military.

The field of warfare is being changed completely through the use of information and information warfare. That information is used for manipulating and influencing society to think about the current war. With social cybersecurity being multidisciplinary, it can persuade and influence people to high levels and can become an effective strategy for warfare operations.

As technology has become more advanced, it’s led to a new wave of misinformation that social cybersecurity plays a part in. There are factors such as anonymity, people needing to check their information, large platforms with just as much data, and open societies that lead to misinformation. This can lead people to spread disinformation and have a largely negative influence over information and communities of people.

Overall, this article addresses many aspects of social cybersecurity and why it needs to become more well-known. Governments that have used similar methods of influence in the past now have a much larger scale for how their people think and what their information looks like. Information warfare is a new form of war and has multiple avenues for influencing people and how operations work. The expansive growth of technology has created a new wave of misinformation that makes now the most crucial time for social cybersecurity to become apparent within society.