Module 2 Journal: How the principles of science relate to cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity is an interdisciplinary study or career that needs to relate to some STEM fields such as information technology, computer science, mathematics, etc., and some social sciences such as criminology, psychology, political science, etc. So, we can see cybersecurity is one of the science or especially in social science careers that makes we can use the principles of science to it.

For the principle of science, the relativism that principle says all things are related, we can use in cybersecurity such as seeing a relationship between technology and something (cybercriminal, people’s behavior, etc.) then making us recognize how broader technology can affect people and society, for example, “how the social system changed with behaviors driven by technology” or “how the criminal justice system developed new ways to respond to crime.”  

For the principle of science, an objectivity that scientists need to be neutral and not show their opinion on the study topic, we can use it in cybersecurity because in cybersecurity studies we also need to be neutral when doing some research for the correctness of the data even if we have some strong opinion about it such as the question “how should hackers be punished?”

For the principle of science, parsimony that scientists need to keep the explanation as simple as possible, we can use it in cybersecurity because when we do research about cybersecurity, we need to make sure it is easy to make people understand our research for people who want to study or want to develop the research in the future even it is hard to use a simple explanation for cybersecurity topic that relates to social science such as human behavior.

For the principle of science, empiricism that scientists can only study behavior that is real to sense or something people can experience, we can use it in cybersecurity which we also can’t trust opinions or hunches to frame our cybersecurity knowledge because it will make an error to data, so cybersecurity knowledge must only come from empirical research.

For the principle of science, ethical neutrality that scientists need to adhere to ethical standards when they do research, we can and must use it in cybersecurity because we need to protect the right of people in the cybersecurity research that we study because it easily to have ethic issues when we study or talk about human behavior such as the question “should the police use digital technologies that track human behavior?” or “Can a professor or teacher monitor their student for online course work?”

For the last principle, determinism that principle says behavior is caused by preceding events, we can use it in cybersecurity so that we can understand why some people choose to engage in certain behavior such as “why people choose to commit phishing and internet fraud” or “why people choose to share personal information with a stranger on the online” by looking reason in the past or the previous event. So, all of this is how the principle of science relates to the cybersecurity discipline in my opinion.