Strategic Communication for Supporting Cyber-Security

The purpose of this paper is to outline a methodology for figuring out what types of information shall be shared via strategic level communication to support cyber-security. With this methodology the key development issues required to create relevant strategic messages can be sorted out. The paper follows the system modeling approach and considers the cyber world as a complex adaptive system. First, the paper studies shortly the key concepts of the cyber world and strategic communication. A social system model of a society is applied as an approach for the identifying of emergent phenomena and characteristics of the cyber-security. The social system model is populated with a small set of empirical data about cyber-security exercises. The results of the analysis of the empirical data are examples of the emergent phenomena of cyber-security. They can be considered as one set of the focus areas of the strategic level communication.