The article I will be using for this paper is “The Future of Cybercrime Prevention Strategies: Human Factors and A Holistic Approach to Cyber Intelligence”. Within this paper we talk about the evolution of technology and how we have to step our game up as humans in order to keep up with the advancement. As these advancements are made, more and more people are excited to be online and surf the worldwide web. But along with the enjoyment we gain from doing so also comes with the risk of being a victim to a cybercrime.
Seong-Sik Lee, Kyung-Shick Choi, and Elizabeth Englander discussed how social demographic factors, victimization experiences, opportunity factors and social context factors are at the top of the list with the public’s fear of crime on social networking. But in order to gather enough information they sat and took a year worth of data in 2019. During this experiment they watched a selected group of people use social media and record down the information needed. While keeping in mind the question trying to be answered which is “How can we make social media into a safer environment”. The group that was selected to be under review for the year, had their history watched as they moved through cyberspace.
This is probably one of the best types of experiments to do at the moment. Because no one has the power to just predict a cyber attack, they can happen at any given moment. Many researchers believe it should be some type of alert system that alarms users on what’s going on in the social space. Just like we have the ODU Alerts on campus, it should be some type of system that alerts people like that, especially the heavy internet users.
Jin Ree Lee and Steven Downing ran an experiment on humans that only focused on the behavioral part of humans. In their studies, they found most of the “bad” things that happen on social media, like bullying for example, is something that we have to understand. Most of the behavior they found was a revenge or desire to show off but in order to fully understand more, more has to be done to protect privacy and educate people on how social media works.
In conclusion, our thinking, policies, and cybersecurity education all have to get up to date. Because technology isn’t going to slow down or decrease. Cybercrimes will continue to grow and it’s up to us to jump aboard and grow with it. But we have to start with human factors and understanding how we operate before we fully dive into a pool of cybersecurity technology.

article: https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=ijcic