Systems Security Engineers contribute to a perspective and focus on security by ensuring stakeholder protection and security concerns are properly identified and addressed in all systems engineering tasks throughout the system life cycle. The protection of stakeholders and the thought given to their security needs leads to safer systems, in turn, building trust. Trust allows system engineers to fulfill critical requirements of network safety, among other aspects.

One way in which Security Engineers meet this level of trust is by ensuring the system meets security requirements. Through good architecture design, making systems less vulnerable, and providing increased resistance to penetration, meeting these security requirements may be more attainable. Well-defined security designs can also reduce the effect or potency of orchestrated cyber-attacks.

The work Security Engineers do and the focus on creating safe, trustworthy systems, is growing evermore important as society becomes more reliant on cyberinfrastructure. However, the more popular this technology becomes and the more use cases develop around it, the opportunity for attack vectors grows with it. As workplace deviance and cyber-attacks grow with technology, criminologists surely must take an interest in the study of these occurrences. Yet, the pace and depth of the inclusion of cybercrime into criminology is seemingly slow. There seems to have been resistance by criminal justice scholars to study white-collar crime. This can be accounted for by the similarity of white-collar crime to cybercrime.

Fortunately, this will not last as there are opportunities for the connection of criminal justice and cybersecurity. A new branch of criminology, named cyber criminology, could be adopted which is “the study of causation of crimes that occur in cyberspace and its impact in the physical space.” Jaishankar (2007). The importance of cybercrime as a topic of criminology should be stressed by educators who may need to have the value of interdisciplinary pursuits stressed to them. Cybercrime is multi-faceted and certainly deserving of study with the more traditional topics of criminology.

Reference

Jaishankar, K. (2007). Cyber criminology: Evolving a novel discipline with a new

journal. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 1(1), 1-6.