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In many cases StratCom should be used to prevent the dissemination of disinformation, nowadays known
as fake news. Neutralising vectors and actors with hostile intent should be the main goal, along with other
strategic objectives that advance one's own actions.

Conclusion

Today's military operations are no longer confined exclusively to physical domains, but are now often
multi-domain. This requires giving more dimensionality to the strategies employed, because it requires
taking into account not only state actors, but also non-state actors. Access to the cognitive domain is no
longer limited exclusively to armed forces, but multiple actors, even individuals, can carry out actions that
impact on it.

Beyond cyberattacks, impacting the news cycle or public sentiment is possible with some ease and not
too many resources, making StratCom increasingly important not only to reinforce self-interest, but also
to counter or dampen initiatives by opposing actors. Tools such as Intelion facilitate the analysis of the
cognitive domain and make it possible to obtain the necessary intelligence by monitoring 24/7 TV
broadcasts, radio, streaming or the social networks themselves, to determine sentiment, locate
information vectors and find references to specific actors in a matter of minutes.

ISID is a Spanish and global company that develops solutions and platforms for the processing, analysis,
management and storage of audio and video, whether file-based, streaming or live (TV). Its Intelion
platform allows 24/7 monitoring of the cognitive domain, including TV broadcasts, radio, streaming, social
networks or websites, analysing public sentiment or performing automatic searches for terms, words,
faces or objects, with a system of alerts in case of positive detections.

About the Author

Fernando Escudero is an engineer and has been a technology journalist for
over 30 years. He currently works in the Marketing and Communications
department at ISID, a Spanish company that develops solutions and
platforms for AI-powered audio and video processing and analysis.

Fernando Escudero can be reached online at [email protected] and at our
company website www.isid.com

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