High-tech criminality

Abstract

Cybercrime is an activity that originates from a hacker's workstation, spreads through the web and affects the endpoint infrastructure. From a professional point of view, it's one of the most requiring criminologist cases in all crime areas, because it needs a plenty of skill to be recognized, managed and resolved. The modern global landscape shows a certain tendency of not being capable to respond to such a security challenge. In other words, the cyber criminals are well-motivated and work for a high profit, so it's obvious why that branch of criminality cannot be fully covered at present. Indeed, we need much better capacities to tackle such a concern and as the entire world suffers so obvious cyber skill shortage it's clear why we are dealing in maze. In this paper, we discuss high-tech crime as a social, economical and above all; security challenge trying to indicate some recommendations that could provide us a deeper understanding of the topic.

Keywords

• high-tech crime
• cyber defense
• intelligence
• technology
• strategy