Instructions:
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/bLinks to an external site.
The article, “Social Cybersecurity An Emerging National Security Requirement” by Lt. Col. David M. Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, PhD, emphasizes the growing need to address the social side of cybersecurity. The authors made key points for the issue by addressing information warfare, which has to do with the manipulation and influencing of cultures, communities and values for malicious intent. In relation to that point, several others were made discussing mixed tactics of using both technical and social cybersecurity to do harm. For example, Russia’s ‘information blitzkrieg’ and cognitive hacking. The points and issues raised by the article is all a cause for concern as people are quick to believe certain things and be influenced by them. I agree with the authors suggestion of adapting to these tactics by focusing more on the social ‘human’ aspect of cybersecurity and training both professionals and the public on how to identify them and to protect themselves.