Noran Fouad

Failing better in the infosphere: ontological uncertainties and the essence of security in cyberspace The operation of digital information systems poses complex challenges for cybersecurity policies and practices. These include the uncertainties associated with vulnerability analysis, intrusion det...

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📢Excited to share my new article in Information, Communication & Society! Part of a forthcoming special issue edited by the brilliant Matt Spencer. This piece explores how ontological uncertainties of information shape conceptualisations of cybersecurity & defence. Open access👇🏽

32: Cyber Cyber terminology is used in abundance in academic and policy circles in relation to information technologies and their impact on global politics and security, albeit with little agreement on key conc...

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📚Thanks to Beate Jahn & Sebastian Schindler for bringing together this fantastic volume, with 179 entries on core IR concepts @elgarpublishing.bsky.social. Delighted to have contributed an entry on 'cyber' & related key terms: cyberspace, cybersecurity, and cyber warfare. Link below👇

Glad to see this important report come to life & to have contributed a chapter on the Middle East & Africa. Thanks to all the researchers & practitioners who joined our regionally-focused workshops & to the fantastic @lmhurel.bsky.social & the @rusi.bsky.social team for making this happen!

Theorising Cyber (In)Security: Information, Materiality, and Entropic Security This book argues that cybersecurity’s informational ontology offers empirical challenges, and introduces a new interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual framework of ‘entropic security’. Cyber-atta...

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Officially and for real! 🎉🎊🥳 My first book (in English) is now published by Routledge! If you’re interested in cybersecurity, critical security studies, or science and technology studies, check it out and order for your library from the link below.

Dr Noran Fouad Royal United Services Institute

Thrilled to start the new year on a high note as an Associate Fellow with @rusi.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue advancing the vital work on the Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour and beyond!
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Virtual Routes European Cybersecurity Fellowship Call for Applications and details.

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 Virtual Routes European Cybersecurity Fellowship!

This year-long program is designed for young professionals aiming to advance their careers in cybersecurity policy.

Apply here 👉: virtual-routes.org/initiatives/...

Deadline ⏰: 23 February 2025

📣 Just published by @manchesterup.bsky.social, "Digital Ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds" is a @digicologies.bsky.social edited collection exploring the world(s) of digital ecologies!

I have a chapter on 'ecological computationality'

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