Social cyber

This 2025 paper seeks to strengthen consensus among key stakeholders in Australia and India regarding the importance of a joint technology assessment process.

The 2025 project aims to create a self-organising community of practice (CoP) inclusive of both countries, promoting its sustainability after the project's conclusion and potentially extending its influence on a wider multilateral scale.

All security outcomes in cyberspace are determined by individuals, whose behaviour is shaped by their social setting, whether organisational or cultural. Yet there has been little evidence globally of the necessary adjustment of policy or practice that gives due weight to the social science dimensions.

Australian policy response to the coronavirus outbreak has followed a two-step process, with containment the highest priority (the bio-medical and humanitarian view) and with economic and social consequences (a whole of society view) occupying a clear follow-on priority.

Cybersecurity attacks have become a growing focus for many businesses and governments. A challenge in responding is to determine the level and allocation of cyber-security budgets.

This study undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal consequences of extreme cybersecurity incidents affecting publicly traded corporations in the 21st century.

n 2019 and 2020, sixteen Australian and international researchers looked closely at the subject of civil defence from the perspective of  cyber emergencies in Australia, Europe, Israel, Canada and the US.

Here is a presentation from 2018 marking the foundation of the Social Cyber Group and its affiliated Social Cyber Institute in Australia. Both are spin-offs from UNSW Canberra. The key message was this: “Cyber security is now a social science.”

All security outcomes in cyberspace are determined by individual people, whose behaviour is shaped by their social setting, either organisational or cultural. Yet there has been little evidence globally of the necessary adjustment of policy or practice that gives due weight to the social science dimensions. There is a sharp imbalance between investments in technology for security in cyber space as against social science at almost every level