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/b/

The article “Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement” by Lt. Col. David M. Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, PhD discusses the importance of social cybersecurity and the change that is has caused within warfare tactics. As stated in the article, 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, and to build the cyber-infrastructure needed for society… for social cyber-threats.” The authors establish a position early where information and technology has allowed the strengthening of different elements of national power such as diplomatic, military, information, and economic elements. The authors also explain the difference between traditional cybersecurity and social cybersecurity. Traditional insoles humans using technology to hack technology whereas social involves humans using technology to hack other humans. Social cybersecurity is changing the way that warfare is viewed immensely. Emerging technology has allowed for the spread of information to be almost instant and therefore information is being used to strengthen the elements mentioned earlier. For example, if a nation gains enough information against another nation, they may be able to attack, disrupt, distort, or divide the society and values of other nations or states. By weakening the society of the opposing side, a nation can “win the next war before it has even begun.” In order for a nation to defend the security of itself, it must fully understand the emerging discipline of social cybersecurity and how it impacts so many different disciplines. The article also discusses the history of Russian information Blitzkrieg and how it compares to modern day. The general approach still continues where leveraging disinformation amongst a small nucleus is used to divide nations apart from one another. The authors mention that the scale of this happening today is enormously larger than when it was being utilized in the 1950s. The authors then discuss how the largest strategic shift for warfare was from the physical to the human aspects. This has led to two major changes in human communication. The first being physical presence is not required to influence society and also decentralization. Governments used to control the flow of information being spread, however with the rise of social networks, information is widely accessible in a lot of different locations. All of this leads to the idea that new warfare is going to be dominated by information and psychological warfare. It is crucial that nations are familiar with social cybersecurity and see the influence that it has to influence different nations and society.