Book description
Essential reading for cybersecurity professionals, security
analysts, policy experts, decision-makers, activists, and law enforcement!
During the Arab Spring movements, the world witnessed the power of
social media to dramatically shape events. Now this timely book shows
government decision-makers, security analysts, and activists how to
use the social world to improve security locally, nationally, and
globally--and cost-effectively. Authored by two
technology/behavior/security professionals, Using Social Media for
Global Security offers pages of instruction and detail on
cutting-edge social media technologies, analyzing social media data,
and building crowdsourcing platforms.
The book teaches how to collect social media data and analyze it to
map the social networks of terrorists and sex traffickers, and
forecast attacks and famines. You will learn how to coalesce
communities through social media to help catch murderers, coordinate
disaster relief, and collect intelligence about drug smuggling from
hard-to-reach areas. Also highlighting dramatic case studies drawn
from the headlines, this crucial book is a must-read.
- Illustrates linguistic, correlative, and network analysis of OSINT
- Examines using crowdsourcing technologies to work and engage with
populations globally to solve security problems
- Explores how to ethically deal with social media data without
compromising people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression
- Shows activists fighting against oppressive regimes how they can
protect their identities online
If you're responsible for maintaining local, national or global
security, you'll want to read Using Social Media for Global Security.
Ravi Gupta is an entrepreneur who develops and commercializes
technologies that use biological principles. He has created social
media platforms, data processing algorithms, and crowdsourcing
techniques to understand and solve security problems.
Hugh Brooks is a security consultant for government and private
clients. With a focus on creativity, he has produced innovative
solutions for crowd-driven applications, behavior modeling, mobile
health and education, and cyber security.
