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        As many of us agree, Cybersecurity can be considered relatively a new evolving major. It doesn’t have a common, conventional, independently-standing definition for everyone to agree-on. The nature of its technical-complexity in addition to the fact that it dissects and touches multiple social and technical disciplines classifies this major as interdisciplinary field of study. Human using machines, manipulate or hack machines operated by humans, can easily highlight the human and machine aspect of cybersecurity. For this reason, below are selected two of each technically and socially related majors to cybersecurity.  

1. Criminology:  is an interdisciplinary field consists of behavioral and social science, which specifically studies crimes and societal deviant behaviors. In the era of system breaches, identity theft, ransomware attack and so on, Criminology helps cybersecurity in identifying crime or offenses, hold criminals accountable and analyze actual crime and provide a framework of educational campaign for victims or potential victims from a perspective of-how criminals work in the dark web or else.  
2. Sociology: Thanks to technology, our daily life is changing rapidly. The dynamics enabling these changes extends to the point of even obscuring which one is the cause and which one is the effect of human-machine interactions. When sociology interacts with cyber security, it tries to study how individuals and groups in a shared societal influence tend to behave in a cyberspace. It also investigates how technology in the context of cybersecurity, impacts social behavior, for example, bullying which is partly the effect of using non-physical medium, online.
3.   Information technology:  is one of the closest majors to cybersecurity. This computer based, software and hardware application driven, designs and developments tasked field of study do depend on cybersecurity for security of its data contents, safeguarding its technology assets, and smooth operation of its systems.
4. Computer science: incorporates computational science which uses theory, design, development, and application to translate theoretical disciplines to practical disciplines. These practical disciplines, the hardware and software resources provide us with the machine and its processing and computational ability all together. This helps cybersecurity to manage and implement the security apparatus it needs. The rational is that secured machines and software applications are the bases for secured cybersecurity functionality and vice versa.