The principles of science that we refer to in relation to cybersecurity include relativism, objectivity, parsimony, empiricism, and determinism. Relativism addresses the interrelatedness of all things. In cybersecurity, relativism can be seen as the rise of cybercrime due to the increase in use of technology. Objectivity is a crucial component when studying cybersecurity crimes and occurrences to avoid the opinions of the beholder clouding the objective reality of the situation. “How should hackers be punished?” is a sizable cybersecurity concern that requires objectivity. The social science principle, parsimony, is the effort made to explain scientific conclusions as simply as possible. While this might be more difficult to do in social science, they do their best to keep it simplified even though human behavior could not be categorized as such. Empiricism discusses the study of only behavior in which is detectable by the five senses. This means that scientists need to rely on observed experiences rather than opinion-based theories to explain cybersecurity incidents in order to avoid conclusions being invaluable and inaccurate. Determinism is the principle of science that argues human decisions and behaviors are predetermined by preceding events; this can be related to cybersecurity by questioning why someone, such as a hacker, makes the decision to infiltrate a system illegally and how their previous life events led to them making said decision.