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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.

ISBN-10

1118442318
ISBN-13

978-1118442319
Edition

1st
Publisher

Wiley
Publication date

January 29, 2013
Language

English
Dimensions

7.4 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Print length

456 pages
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"Social Media mapping is the new achilles-heel of associations and thoughts, which were formerly unseen. Gupta and Brooks are without question the master of this cartography"
--David Tinsley, Former U.S Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent. CEO, 5 Stones Intelligence

How an agent for change can be a force for security
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, globally--and cost-effectively.
You'll discover how to collect social media data and analyze it to map the social networks of terrorists and sex traffickers, or to 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. With its dramatic case studies pulled from the headlines, this crucial book is a must-read.

Illustrates linguistic, correlative, and network analysis of OSINT
Examines the use of crowdsourcing technologies to work with and engage 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 to protect their identities online

Visit the companion website at wiley.com/go/usingsocialmediaforglobalsecurity for updates, data files referenced in the book, and additional information

About the Author

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.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (January 29, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 456 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118442318
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118442319
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.49 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 1 x 9.2 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,683,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #422 in Social Security (Books)
- #2,086 in Social Media Guides
- #3,963 in Law Enforcement (Books)

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J. Rodgers

Groundbreaking book

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2013

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Gupta and Brooks truly understand how two seemingly disparate fields, social media and international security, can be merged and used in an area of analytics that is just beginning to mature. They break down social media platforms in terms that anybody can understand and effectively map out how trends in global security are magnified and played out with the use of such platforms....This is definitely a must buy for any aspiring or professional security practitioner interested in learning more about social media and its security implications!

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Anastasia

Hard time putting it down

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2015

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This is an excellent book to provide readers with ways to monitor social media for global security. The first few chapters dumbs down social media for those not familiar with it. Overall I really learned a lot.

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CU Tiger

Revolutionizing Warfare

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2013

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"Using Social Media" paves the way for a new approach to engagement across all business disciplines. Mr. Gupta brazenly shows the tactical and strategic ways of exploiting disruptive innovations to achieve enormous gains!

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Ben Rothke

Great resource on how to harness the power of social media

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2013

While teenagers, marketers, and celebrities seem to dominate the sphere of social media, all those connections can be a valuable tool for security professionals. The notion of social media analytics (SNA) didn't even exist a few years ago, but it can enable organizations to mine intelligence from social media conversations.

Using Social Media for Global Security is written for cybersecurity professionals, security analysts, policy experts, decision-makers, activists, and law enforcement personnel. It explains how to use the myriad social network communities and SNA to ensure greater levels of security. That said, this is not an easy read. The reader needs to be quite comfortable with the core social networking sites, in addition to advanced networking tools. The user of these techniques should also be comfortable with statistics and advanced analytic techniques.

The book notes that terrorists and criminal elements have been exploiting social media for years. Most security professionals will need to play catch-up in the realm of social media. For those who want to harness the power of social media and are willing to put the time and effort into getting that data, this book is an excellent resource.

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Dr.Farhana Islam

Wonderful book

Reviewed in India on February 26, 2021

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