Sam Garden 3/26/24
Read this and write a journal entry summarizing your response to the article on social cybersecurity:
Social Cybersecurity An Emerging National Security Requirement (army.mil)
The area of social cybersecurity is expanding and aims to forecast and comprehend how changes mediated by cyberspace affect society outcomes and individual behavior. It entails influencing thoughts and beliefs using technology in order to produce tactical consequences in conflict. This is a new field that integrates psychology, political science, sociology, and communication science to study and mitigate the effects of information warfare.
This strategy is demonstrated by Russian information operations, which seek to undermine opponents by creating divisions among their populations. This tactic, which was carried over from Soviet propaganda, aims to maintain control over the tangible tools used to sway public opinion in favor of the ruling class. Such operations can now be carried out more sophisticatedly and on a large scale thanks to modern technologies.