Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement

Abstract

Social cybersecurity is an emerging subdomain of national security that will affect all levels of future warfare, both conventional and unconventional, with strategic consequences. 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 to persist in its essential character in a cyber-mediated information environment under changing conditions, actual or imminent social cyber-threats.1

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1108494

Entities

People

  • David M. Beskow
  • Kathleen Carley

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fake News
  • Geography
  • Information Operations
  • Information Warfare
  • National Security
  • Political Movements
  • Social Media
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace