Networks are oftentimes vulnerable to cyber attacks, leaving user and company data at risk. In order to prevent cyber attacks from occurring, cybersecurity engineers must do actions to secure the network. Some of these actions include implementing firewall rules, upgrading firmware, software, and even hardware, or creating access control lists. Each of these actions are crucial for a secure network. There is an overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime. This stems from the fact that if someone commits a cybercrime, and is caught, they will find themselves in the criminal justice system. Moreover, those who are investigating these crimes must have enough knowledge about technology to analyze systems and understand human behavior surrounding technology, like predicting or explaining crime. Moreover, those in criminal justice would know policy law surrounding cybercrime. Digital forensics, which includes investigating computer systems to find evidence for cybercrime, can also be performed by cybersecurity engineers and system administrators. Oftentimes, colleges and universities pair a Criminal Justice degree with a Cybersecurity degree. Many criminologists discuss the overlap between white-collar crimes and cybercrime. However, there are examples of violent cybercrimes, including cyber harassment, the online sexual exploitation of children, and swatting. Swatting is when people call emergency services with a fake emergency. When asked for their address, they will say the victims name and address. Moreover, these often involve bomb threats or hostage situations. Swatting is generally prosecuted as a felony and time in prison depends on the outcome of the fake call. If death occurs during the swatting, the caller could face life in prison. Criminal justice has an overlap with cybercrime as cybercrime is an entire part of the criminal justice system and their studies. While cybersecurity may be more interested in cybercrime as a whole, that does not leave it out of other topics of discussion.
Sources:
https://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/computer-information-science/computer-science/cybersecurity-criminal-justice-bs/
https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/swatting
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-crime-of-swatting-laws-and-penalties.htm