  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.
