Nathan Guman
Week 2 Journal Entry
Explain how the principles of science relate to cybersecurity.
In The Social Order, Robert Bierstedt (1970) listed out several principles he argued were the same across the social sciences and the natural sciences. Those principles are Relativism, Objectivity, Parsimony, Objectivity, Skepticism, Ethical, Neutrality, and Determinism. Since they can be applied to both types of sciences and held to the same scientific standards, Bierstedt argued, these sciences can be considered equally credible. How do you apply these to the cyber domain?
In A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis (2019) the committee describes the objectives of Social Cybersecurity Science as:
“1. characterize, understand, and forecast cyber-mediated changes in human behavior and in social, cultural, and political outcomes; and
- build a social cyber infrastructure that will allow the essential character of a society to persist in a cyber-mediated information environment that is characterized by changing conditions, actual or imminent social cyberthreats, and cyber-mediated threats.” (pg 142)
This is a monumental task involving a diverse and complex understanding of many fields of science. Since all those sciences use the same principles listed above, we can say with certainty the principles of science allow cybersecurity to be understood, examined, and analyzed just as any other science would be. These principles establish credibility and a consistent methodology for studying cybersecurity as a science.