Media Effects On Cyber Intrusions

Abstract

In this current hyperconnected era, many could argue that multifaced daily news events, arranged into univocal storylines, generate effects well beyond the media environment. Empirically speaking, most explorations of media and cyberspace focus discretely on one or the other, parochially missing their potential interaction. More specifically, could negative media events, laced with dueling narratives, aimed at the United States and its interests by other countries on a given day, impact the level of cyber intrusions on U.S. networks the next day? The purpose of this study is to relate today's recorded cyber intrusions on a U.S. network to yesterday's media events using statistical regression models as the method of testing for the relationship's existence. The analysis begins with a broad investigation of all regimes, and then proceeds through specific regime types, before narrowing down to case studies of specific countries. The evidence provided from these models bears out that negative media narratives projected by other countries toward the U.S. generate measurable impacts on the level of ensuing intrusions on U.S. networks. Furthermore, these effects vary in important ways across countries and regime types contingent upon their unique culture, political context, and evolutionary setting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1150692

Entities

People

  • Mitchell J. Mccarthy

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Information Science
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Network Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Social Media
  • Sociopolitics

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace