Multidimensional Cybersecurity Framework for Strategic Foresight

TL;DR

This paper proposes a multidimensional cybersecurity framework based on situational awareness, addressing physical, cultural, economic, social, political, and cyber domains to enhance strategic foresight in a complex societal context.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multidimensional framework for cybersecurity that incorporates six domains and emphasizes strategic foresight and situational awareness.

Findings

Framework covers six key domains for comprehensive cybersecurity understanding.

Highlights importance of social and ethical transparency in cybersecurity strategies.

Provides guiding principles for implementing multidimensional cybersecurity approaches.

Abstract

Cybersecurity is now at the forefront of most organisational digital transformative agendas and National economic, social and political programmes. Hence its impact to society can no longer be seen to be one dimensional. The rise in National cybersecurity laws and regulations is a good indicator of its perceived importance to nations. And the recent awakening for social and ethical transparency in society and coupled with sustainability issues demonstrate the need for a paradigm shift in how cybersecurity discourses can now happen. In response to this shift, a multidimensional cybersecurity framework for strategic foresight underpinned on situational awareness is proposed. The conceptual cybersecurity framework comprising six domains such as Physical, Cultural, Economic, Social, Political and Cyber, is discussed. The guiding principles underpinning the framework are outlined, followed by in-depth reflection on the Business, Operational, Technological and Human (BOTH) factors and their implications for strategic foresight for cybersecurity.