2024/12/05 by Puusalu, Jaanika
#FOS: Social sciences
paper · doi:10.15158/485r-2b15
This article adopts the concept of hybrid warfare from theoretical mili tary strategy to address a contemporary form of intercountry migration – digital nomadism – from a cybersecurity perspective. The article aims to elucidate the risks of digital nomadism, with an interest in prepar ing for these risks and mitigating them. In this light, the article suggests that the ICT sector, in particular, should pay heightened attention to the threats that emerge from a remote and continuously migrating work force, especially when this workforce is supporting or providing digital services that underpin state services and are, thus, primary targets for hybrid threats from hostile states and other actors. Whilst the individual and community-level impacts of digital nomadism have been the focus of much discussion in sociology and anthropology, little attention has been paid to its security implications in a threat landscape expanded by cyberattacks and hybrid warfare means. Thus, by adopting the theoreti cal framework of hybrid warfare to assess these implications, the article is a novel contribution to work in security studies on the relationship between cyber threats and state security.</i> <br><br> Keywords: digital nomads, cyber threats, hybrid warfare, cybersecurity, remote work