I just finished attending an information security conference
in Ireland (www.cosac.net). One of the
presentations concerned some recent research in the area of cultural variables
and their impact on cyber attack design.
The presenter showed details of her recent dissertation on
the subject. Her hypothesis was that people’s innate cultural norms would come
through in their work, especially if that work was performed in a time
compressed manner or under stress.
Of course the dissertation proved the hypothesis. The nature
of the variables is way beyond the scope of a Blog posting, but I think the
theory holds true for Counter PSYOP Analysis.
Perhaps more importantly it holds true for PSYOP product
development. In particular MISO personnel need to take great pains that their
end work product is designed with the target audience in mind and not based on
the developer’s perspective.
Guarding against this bias will likely mean the employment
of trusted third parties who are steeped in (and ideally part of) the culture
of the target audience and whose review can insure that MISO product is presented
in such a way as to appeal to the target rather than showcase – either directly
or indirectly – the perspective and culture of the developers.
As always, reader input invited.
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