Document Type : Original Article
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PhD Student, National Defense University (Corresponding Author
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Cyber Space, Emerging Technologies, National Security, Technology Characteristics, Technology Convergence.
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Faculty Member, Islamic Research Center of the Islamic Consultative
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Faculty Member, Malek Ashtar University of Technology
Abstract
The impact of emerging cyber technologies on national security and the rapid and profound developments in cyber technologies, which exert strategic influences on sovereignty in various social, cultural, economic, political, technological, security, and military-defensive dimensions, necessitate a comprehensive, structured, and cohesive approach to safeguard national interests. This is aimed at raising awareness of ongoing transformations to enable timely decision-making and planning for the country's managers.Therefore, the importance and necessity of identifying the type and extent of the comprehensive impacts of emerging cyber technologies on national security is essential for the purpose of leveraging the opportunities ahead and timely countering potential threats in the framework of scientific research. This study aims to extract the specific and abstract characteristics of emerging cyber technologies as a unified entity, with the goal of uniquely identifying them as a singular existence, so that, in the next step, the impacts of each of these characteristics on various dimensions of national security can be examined to achieve the desired outcome.the research was conducted using a mixed-methods approach, and the necessary information was gathered through documentary and library methods, employing a researcher-developed questionnaire. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential methods with the aid of SPSS 23 software. As a result of the analysis and synthesis of the relationships between the variables based on the presented results, it can be stated that, in the first rank, the component of "data-driven intelligence" has the strongest direct and positive relationship with national security. In the second rank, "complexity and change in the environment" is positioned, followed by "convergence and immersion" in the third rank. Ultimately, it was demonstrated that all dimensions of national security are significantly and directly influenced, with the "political-security" dimension exhibiting the highest level of impact.Keywords.
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