# Social Immune System **Domain:** Resilience / Community / Social Networks **Doc Type:** Corpus Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition A **social immune system** is the surrounding network of trusted people and institutions through which a person or community detects danger, verifies reality, distributes burdens and recovers from harm. ## Cyber Context Compromised communications and uncertain identity can make defensive isolation rational while simultaneously removing the human relationships required for recovery. The defense and the injury can therefore reinforce one another. ## See Also [[wiki/Social Graph|Social Graph]], [[wiki/Human Resilience|Human Resilience]], [[wiki/Operational Security|Operational Security]]