Cybersecurity and the Sciences – CYSE201S
Cybersecurity in its purest form is still a very complex and ever-evolving aspect of daily life. The more technologically advanced society becomes, the more influenced aspects of social sciences subsequently evolve with it. Cybersecurity and cybercrime are the common denominators when looking at all the aspects of the social sciences which include relativism, determinism, ethical neutrality, empiricism, objectivity, and parsimony. Relativism links to cybersecurity because of how much essential and how much we rely on technology in systems like healthcare, the educational system, political campaigns, etc. All of these have a cybersecurity backbone for protecting assets and information but cybercrime also tends to target sensitive information relating to those systems. Determinism regards that all actions and events result from subsequent actions and events. Cybersecurity can be linked to determinism because in a world saturated with cybercrime, most analysts and positive moral hackers are called into action as a reaction response from an attack on a database or malicious intent to steal information. Ethical Neutrality is linked to cybersecurity because of the endless stream of personal data and information that is flowing through the internet so companies and researchers have to be unbiased when conducting research and cybersecurity analysts have to protect individual data while still upholding ethical standards or be held liable if there is a breach of trust. Empiricism and objectivity are closely related and can be linked to cybersecurity because the serious nature of cybercrime and the damages it can lead in its wake, data and security has to be objective and concrete in what its trying to achieve. There exists a gray area in the world of computers so subjective thoughts and hunches achieve very little and can stand in the way of objective solutions and the progress that can provide. Lastly Parsimony is linked to cybersecurity because it analyses why crimes are committed and the driving forces behind them. Hackers and cybercriminals commit their crimes for a purpose and it is the duty for scientists and analysts to determine their motives in a clear and concise manner then potentially present that information to the public or to proper authorities.