Securing the Clicks Network Security in the Age of Social Media

Evolving Threats to the “Global Brain”

The “Global Brain,” a term coined by Peter Russell in his 1982 book The Global Brain, is the concept of a worldwide intelligent network involving people, data, and communication with the technologies they use interconnected into a ubiquitous processing system for the planet. One can argue that social media has been the biggest paradigm shift of the Internet era to date. As Internet-connected devices become faster and more intelligent and take over more responsibilities for us, so too do the threats posed by advances in hacking, malware, and viruses. Instead of a single Internet-connected computer, we now have potentially dozens of devices all accessing and distributing personal data across multiple interconnected ...