Cybersecurity Risk Assessments within Critical Infrastructure Social Networks

This article explores data surrounding the implications of cybersecurity social networking. It explains how social networking specifically within the field of cybersecurity is a discipline that affects science and engineering. Although it used to be interdisciplinary, it can now be considered transdisciplinary. The authors describe a need for analysis in the review of issues presented by principal tasks which relate to the monitoring of social networks, the collection of information, various methods of assessment, and the general idea of preventing while combating cyber security threats. “There is a need to design certain methods, models, and program complexes aimed at estimating risks related to the cyberspace of social networks and the support of their activities.” The authors emphasize to study and consider a risk from the incident combined with the likelihood of occurrence, while risk assessment takes place. The general idea is that issues can happen simultaneously through identification, evaluation, and estimation of the risk itself. “The findings of the study made it possible to elucidate that the technique of cognitive modeling for risk assessment is part of a comprehensive cybersecurity approach included in the requirements of basic IT standards, including IT security risk management.” Another presentation of the study is the consideration of all elements constituting cybersecurity due to its complex and interwebbed system which can be noted through the interconnected social networks. “The ultimate goal of this approach to cybersecurity is the organization of an uninterrupted scheme of protection against any impacts related to physical, hardware, software, network, and human objects or resources of the critical infrastructure of social networks, as well as the integration of various levels and means of protection.”