As security communities brace for the emerging social automation based threats, we examine the mechanisms of developing situation awareness in cyberspace and the governance issues that socialbots bring into this existing paradigm of cyber situation awareness. We point out that an organisation's situation awareness in cyberspace is a phenomena fundamentally distinct from the original conception of situation awareness, requiring continuous data exchange and knowledge management where the standard implementation mechanisms require significant policy attention in light of threats like malicious social automation. We conceptualise Cyberspace Awareness as a socio-technical phenomena with Syntactic, Semantic, and Operatic dimensions - each subject to a number of stressors which are exacerbated under social automation based threats. The paper contributes to the ideas of situational awareness in cyberspace, and characterises the challenges therein around tackling the increasingly social and often pervasive, automation in cyber threat environments.

翻译：随着安全界为新兴的社交自动化威胁做准备，我们审视了在网络空间中发展态势感知的机制，以及社交机器人将此纳入现有网络态势感知范式所引入的治理问题。我们指出，组织在网络空间中的态势感知是一种从根本上区别于原始态势感知概念的现象，需要持续的数据交换和知识管理，而标准的实施机制在面对诸如恶意社交自动化等威胁时需要给予重要的政策关注。我们将网络空间态势感知概念化为一种社会技术现象，具有句法、语义和操作三个维度——每个维度都受到若干压力因素的影响，而在基于社交自动化的威胁下这些压力因素会加剧。本文对网络空间中的态势感知理念做出了贡献，并描述了围绕应对网络威胁环境中日益社交化且往往无处不在的自动化所带来的挑战。