Britain's cybersecurity strategy in the face of disinformation and cognitive warfare: an analysis by our security research team, published by the RUSI

TLTR

• Orange Cyberdefense’s Security research team published an analysis within the prestigious annual report “New Thinking on UK Cyber Effects” by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
• This communication offers a critical and comparative reading of the UK’s cybersecurity strategy compared to other major geopolitical blocs.
• The authors invite to redefine cyberspace as a “sociotechnical” and cognitive environment, where information, perception, and social impact are now key.

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the oldest and most prestigious think tank dedicated to defense and cybersecurity. Each year, it publishes the report “New Thinking on UK Cyber Effects”, to which Orange Cyberdefense’s research team contributed this year.

With “The illusion of restraint: precision, accountability and calibration in the cognitive contest”, Charl van der Walt’s team, responsible for Orange Cyberdefense’s Security Research, provides a comparative and critical analysis of the UK’s cybersecurity strategy in relation to other “blocks” that incorporate the informational, social, and cognitive environment.

In other words, is the strategy of the National Cyber Force (NCF), based on three pillars - Precision, Accountability, and Calibration (PAC) - suitable for informational attacks and cognitive manipulations? The authors thus invite us to rethink cyberspace not just as a technical domain but as a “sociotechnical” and cognitive environment.

For more details, read the full article by Charl van der Walt, Zohra Hamila, Rick Derbyshire, and Adam Ridley.