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Prevention Is Better Than Prosecution: Deepening The Defence Against Cyber Crime, Jacqueline Fick
Prevention Is Better Than Prosecution: Deepening The Defence Against Cyber Crime, Jacqueline Fick
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
In the paper the author proposes that effectively and efficiently addressing cyber crime requires a shift in paradigm. For businesses and government departments alike the focus should be on prevention, rather than the prosecution of cyber criminals. The Defence in Depth strategy poses a practical solution for achieving Information Assurance in today’s highly networked environments. In a world where “absolute security” is an unachievable goal, the concept of Information Assurance poses significant benefits to securing one of an organization’s most valuable assets: Information. It will be argued that the approach of achieving Information Assurance within an organisation, coupled with the …