Vulnerability Assessment on Adversarial Organization: Unifying Command and Control Structure Analysis and Social Network Analysis

People often look at social networks as a way of explaining and understanding the design of an organization. The structure of an organization, in terms of workflow, can itself be assessed for feasibility, strength and robustness. Currently, tools for assessing organizations from a social network and from a workflow perspective are completely separate. Thus, we show how you can infer the workflow from the social network and what additional information can be extracted. This enables you to assess organizations from multiple perspectives at once and to gain a depth of understanding of this organization.

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