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The main terrorist threat in the United States is people who are radicalized by a variety of ideologies that
they have learned from the Internet.

The best protection in this case is not to set strict regulations but to anticipate the situation in advance.
We should train citizens in at least the simplest defense techniques, also known as cyber literacy - the
basics of information security, following which people can protect their data, privacy, money, the flow of
information, and the device itself. People know how to behave in real world and how to use computers
and the Internet, but we do not know how to live there. Cyberspace is a new domain for the organization
of human life that make certain requirements for it. An adult citizen in the post-digital age should
understand the reconstruction of the reputational path of the information received, evaluate the intentions
of those who distribute it, and calculate the plans of the authorities that confirm its authenticity. Similarly,
people should know how to find, install, and work with apps to protect against cyber threats in post-digital
age.

Moreover, we should move away from the "my community first" approach. The threats that arise today
require joint action. The sooner communities start creating security partnerships that reflect their
participation in the overall ecosystem, the faster they will start building a more sustainable society. In an
ecosystem-based world, security is no longer seen as protecting one organization-it concerns everyone.

Post-digital time is a continuation, or new version, of digital time. The essence of the time is that radical
changes in society begin to occur in less than a generation. We must accept that new challenges arise
not once a decade, but every year, or even every month. The number and range of problems that need
to be urgently addressed will continuously grow, and require appropriate new knowledge and skills of the
person. One of them should be cyber literacy in post-digital world.

National security

The foundation of any state are people and values. Almost any type of human activity has an axiological
basis, since values perform a regulating and goal-setting function in the life of an individual. Through
innovation companies and governments are able to use cyber space to develop a deep understanding of
their audience and build permanent, personalized relationship with individuals based on their unique
technological identity. Everyone knows that the Internet brings society together on a global level: it is
used for creating and developing businesses, for importing and exporting goods, for recreation and
relaxation, for searching for data and any information

Unfortunately, we live in the world where states and non-state actors focus on undermining the basis of
their competitors. It can be done through changing the national role of the elites, shaping the ideas of the
people, and influencing the inner forces of the state.

In post-digital time the role of cyberspace in shaping opinion and values is enormous. It is an area where
cyber-attack can be used to produce effects similar to kinetic weapons, and where the manipulation of
information and decision-making can have effects that are far more dangerous, disrupting not only virtual
domains, but also negatively affecting the real world. Individual users and authors of blogs, extremists
and hostile political parties have the opportunity to influence the audience via cyber area where we spend
practically a half of our life. The focus is the dissemination of specially selected information

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