Engineers are quite important to networks. These are the people responsible for building and maintaining these networks. For the building part, networks are easier to make secure and keep it that way if they are built from the beginning with security in mind, and that is the engineers job. For maintaining them, engineers if not the same ones who built it need to work with what was built before to add to it. As a result engineers tend to be ones with some fo the most intimate knowledge of the inner workings of these systems and networks, and are thus the most qualified to identify security problems before they result in an incident. Because engineers know so much about networks it would be helpful if more of them became involved (included in) the prosecution side of things outside of reference.

Because crimes can be committed on these networks (data theft, loss of service), it is important to bring bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice to reduce occurrence through example, much like we do with so many other crimes. The reason there is overlap is due to the criminalization of these activities. Cybercrime and criminal justice overlap in several areas, but I’m going to point mainly to criminal psychology and how people view their personal information. Knowing the mindset of the kinds of people who commit cybercrime is as important to law enforcement as it is knowing the kind of people who would rob a bank. Since so few people have had a high regard for what they put in online networks in the past few decades, there is more personally sensitive data being misused by bad actors. Fortunately this has been changing in recent years. (1)

Works Cited

“How to Tell If Your Computer Has Been Hacked and How to Fix It: HP® Tech Takes.” How To Tell If Your Computer Has Been Hacked and How To Fix It | HP® Tech Takes, www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/how-to-tell-if-your-computer-has-been-hacked. Accessed 25 June 2023.