Interestingly social cybersecurity differs from traditional cybersecurity because it involves people using technology to hack other people versus using it to hack other technologies. As a multidisciplinary computational social science, it combines theories from disciplines like sociology, communication science, forensics, anthropology, and psychology. Sometimes referred to as cognitive hacking this emerging discipline is necessary to understand in order to defend the security of the United States and it’s position worldwide. In consideration, geography does play an important role as a security measure, however technology has allowed for, “state and nonstate actors to extend their power in the information domain at a scale and complexity long thought impossible” (Social Cybersecurity an Emerging National Security Requirement, n.d.). This reach has ushered in the age of information warfare which aims to attack, disrupt and divide the society and values of competing nations or organizations. As such relevant research, policies, education, and workforce is necessary to combat the information and psychological warfare we see today
Social Cybersecurity An Emerging National Security Requirement. (n.d.). Army University Press. https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/Mar-Apr-2019/117-Cybersecurity/b/