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P022 - Cyber-resilient society – promoting the human factor in cybercrime
Thu, September 12, 6:45 to 8:00pm, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Front CourtyardAbstract
The sub-department ‘Cyber-resilient society’ of the German ‘Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit’ (Cyberagentur) identifies future research topics in the sociotechnical sciences with a focus on cybercrime in order to develop calls for proposals.
It is the mission of the Cyberagentur to contract disruptive research projects in the field of cybersecurity and related key technologies. It thus finances research with a horizon of 5 to 15 years. The agency was established by the federal government as an in-house company under the joint leadership of the Federal Ministry of Defense and the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The Research and Innovation division comprises three departments: ‘Key Technologies’, ‘Secure Systems’ and ‘Secure Society’. Specifically within the ‘Secure Society’ section promising research could emerge for the community, for example in the fields of digital identities, cyber-resilient society, human-machine interaction or the cyber-enabled state. The sub-department ‘Cyber-resilient society’, focuses on the human factor in cybercrime and cybersecurity, subsequently the goal is to understand cybercrime not only from a merely technical point of view but also to engage with criminology, ethics, law, sociology, psychology, and other interdisciplinary fields. The aim is to strengthen criminological cybersecurity research to anticipate legislative needs, design courses of action, empower law enforcement agencies and develop measures to support cybersecurity and counter cybercrime. This myriad of goals is accomplished by bringing together heterogeneous actors and thus develop ecosystems, identify novel scientific research fields and support existing networks. A recent tender of the sub-department focuses on the future of cybercrime by identifying patterns to forecast national and cross-border developments in the field of cybercrime. The project is intended to lay the foundation for the sub-department 'Cyber-resilient society' to identify approaches for further research and development of tools and options for action.