The Ecosystem: Understanding Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

Notes:

- Dr. Benoît Dupont has written a book on the ecology of cybercrime, which was born from his frustration with the segmentation of research on cybercrime within criminology and between disciplines. 

- The book argues that all research on cybercrime should be connected because we all live in the same digital ecosystem. - There are many hurdles and obstacles in the way of making positive change in the fight against cybercrime, but Dr. Dupont is optimistic about our chances. 

- Residual cybercrime will always subsist, but it can also help identify vulnerabilities in technologies that the industry hasn't identified, which can help improve security. 

- It's important to address the needs of victims of cybercrime, which is often forgotten. 

- The government has the data or the tools to generate the data but needs to work with the private sector and academia to make sense of the data and agree on a roadmap for anti-cybercrime and anti-cybercrime control and prevention.

About our Guest:

Dr. Benoît Dupont

https://crim.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/professeurs/professeur/in/in15263/sg/Benoît Dupont/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoit-dupont-9369702/

Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:

Dupont, B., Grabosky, P., & Shearing, C. (2003). The Governance of Security in Weak and Failing States. Criminal Justice, 3(4), 331-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/146680250334001

Berg, J., Nakueira, S. & Shearing, C. 2014. Global Non- State Auspices of Security Governance. In: Bersot, H. & Ariigo, B. Eds. The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. Routledge, 77-97

Other:

“Much time and energy have been devoted by taxonomists to isolating morphological patterns of species and subspecies and determining the geographic ranges of each. This is only a stepping stone to further progress in many lines- units around which accumulations of knowledge could be formed for comparison with one another. Until such units are stabilized so that they can be recognized, specific knowledge cannot accumulate - it will of necessity be generalized because, without such standardization, one worker cannot add to the specific knowledge of others.” pp.3.

Woodbury, A. M. (1952). Ecological taxonomy. Science, 115(2992), 3-3.