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Research Agenda The Human Factor in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

Research Agenda The Human Factor in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
  • Year of publication 2017
  • 96 pages
Editor:E.R. Leukfeldt
Icon_ebook 978‐94‐6274‐706‐7 | ebook | € 42.00 / $ 33.75 / £ 26.50

With the digitization of society, crime has also digitized. Digitization has consequences for the entire spectrum of crime and raises all sorts of questions. For example, are we dealing with a new type of offender, or with the same old offenders who simply moved their activities online? How can potential victims be made resilient against attacks? And who should protect potential victims: the police, commercial cybersecurity companies, or internet service providers?

To date, many of these questions remain unanswered. This is partly because current studies have a strong focus on technology or are exploratory in nature, suffer from methodological limitations and focus on just a few of the many types of cybercrime.

The aim of this research agenda is to stimulate research on the human factor in cybercrime and cybersecurity. The agenda provides the state-of-the-art of research on the role of the human factor in this field. In addition, examples are given of important research questions and innovative methods and datasets that are needed for future studies. This agenda can be seen as a foundation for further thought with disciplines, inside and outside the social sciences, about how these topics and questions can best be answered.

Author's information

Rutger Leukfeldt is postdoc researcher ‘cybercrime’ at the NSCR. Over the last ten years, Rutger worked on various cybercrime studies for public and private companies. Examples include studies into the modus operandi and characteristics of cybercriminals, a nation-wide cybercrime victim survey and a study into the organization of Dutch law enforcement agencies responsible for the fight against cybercrime. From 2012 – 2016, Rutger carried out his PhD-study into the processes of origin and growth of cybercriminal networks.