A Response To A Social Cybersecurity Article

It is no surprise to me that social cybersecurity will affect warfare, both conventional and unconventional. As large and as fast as it is growing, cyberwarfare does not seem far off. The article states that social cybersecurity is “an emerging scientific area focused on the science to characterize, understand, and forecast cyber-mediated changes in human behavior, social, cultural, and political outcomes” (Beskow and Carley, 2019). Social cybersecurity tends to hack other people in a sense, changing their mindsets and manipulating them through social engineering. This could be used to drive apart nations, people and potential alliances, in the case of cyberwarfare. Not only this, but it can drive races and religions apart as well. As the article states, technology has waived the requirement for physical proximity to influence society and that most importantly, “anonymity and the lack of certain attribution of an attack make cyberspace the domain of ambiguity” (Beskow and Carley, 2019). Social cybersecurity may end up being the future of warfare, causing tension between people, nations, and allies. 

References

Beskow, D. M., & Carley, K. M. (2019, April). Social Cybersecurity an emerging national security requirement. Army University Press. https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/Mar-Apr-2019/117-Cybersecurity/b/