Explain how the principles of science relate to cyber security.

Relativism, objectivity, determinism, parsimony, ethical neutrality, skepticism, and objectivity are the scientific principles that relate to the social sciences and thus cyber security.

Relativism means that all things are related to each other such as how technology drives the development of cyberspace and thus new types of crimes and security issues arise.

Objectivity refers to how topics are studied without a point of view involved, this way the only influence on an outcome is data. As it relates to cyber security, some fields may be asked to study subjects such as terrorists promoting their material online. Its important to keep an objective stance and not let feelings influence a decision.

Parsimony means that an explanation should be kept as simple as possible. (and thats what i’m doing here!)

Empiricism says that social scientists can only study behavior which is real to the senses. This basically means that we cant inform our understanding of the cyber field from opinions but rather data.

Ethical Neutrality is exactly what it sounds like- scientists must adhere to ethical standards when conducting research ie. protecting the rights of the individual.

Skepticism means not accepting an answer or solution based on feelings or info that was passed down from another person, but rather based on pure data.

Determinism means that everything is influenced by a preceding event. This basically means that every event is already planned out and no one has free will. It’s the absence of choice. However in the social science world this becomes a little harder to explain as if you were to ask the question of “why is someone a hacker” you could argue that they had no choice, everything in their life led to that moment. Or, you could say, this person had free will and infact did have a choice.