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P026. Cyber-resilient Society – promoting the Human Factor in Cybercrime
Thu, September 4, 6:45 to 8:00pm, Other Venues, Poster VenueAbstract
It is the mission of the Cyberagentur to contract disruptive research projects in the field of cybersecurity and related key technologies. It finances research with a horizon of 5 to 15 years. The Cyberagentur 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’. The ‘Secure Society’ section develops research programs 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 as well as on disinformation. Its 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 aiming 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 is accomplished by bringing together heterogeneous actors and identifying novel scientific research fields to develop calls for proposals and support 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. Another tender aims to quantify harm caused by cybercrime while not only focusing on financial harm but also taking psychological and social aspects into account. Moreover, during the finished program called “VeNIM”, a concept paper regarding trust architectures for media content was developed. Furthermore, there are several upcoming programs, such as a program regarding the strengthening of cyber resilience and cyber vigilance through digital competence as well as the program “FoUnD-VR”, which is related to disinformation in the metaverse.