ABSTRACT

SOCIAL RESILIENCE

Research on social resilience focuses on social responses to cybercrime and cyber terrorism. Leveraging on social resilience provides the basis of a potential programme of intervention that helps to both prevent cybercrimes from taking place and reducing the impact of cybercrime when it does take place. A key aspect of a social resilience system is the presence of a reliable mechanism that is able to spread awareness about some dangerous situation. The idea suggested here consists in the definition of a trusted authority that is in charge of communicating with the potential victims. Implications of the use of such a system are discussed (e.g., security and safety issues).