Social cyber

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.

National Cyber Emergencies: The Return to Civil Defence

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.

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Illustration showing the imp[ortance of the human factor in cyber security and teh need to see scoial science as co-equal with technical studies as central to cyber security.

Cyber security is a social science

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.”

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Illustrates the implications of social science approaches to cyber security

Creating Social Cyber Value

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

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The Social Cyber Institute uses its Research Highlights Blog to resurface key ideas from past research and activities of the Fellows of the Institute. It does not function as a news commentary blog.