Besas, Evangelos

2020-06-04T00:00:34Z

https://repository.ihu.edu.gr//xmlui/handle/11544/29484

Cybercrime

Cybercrime and Incident Response

E.Besas@ihu.edu.gr

free

School of Science and Technology, MSc in Communications and Cybersecurity

In today’s wired world, cyber security incidents can have a great impact on organizations and critical infrastructure ranging from either economic, or damage in their reputation and credibility, to complete disrupt and destroy of operations. Moreover, the ever-evolving nature of cybercrime poses more and more challenges that call for a collective approach in order to address them. A well-prepared incident response scheme might mitigate the risks, nevertheless, a solely act it was never enough. What is needed is, cooperation and collaboration with other stakeholders, such as law enforcement, prosecutors, industry, etc. from across the globe to effectively and efficiently deal with old and new forms of cyber security incidents or cybercrimes. Moreover, national as well as international laws should set the legal framework within which, each and every party should undertake their role towards the common goal of building and strengthening a cyber resilient public and private sector. This dissertation firstly, goes on to discuss the cybercrime as a concept, the legal framework that relates to cyber issues and how to effectively respond when an incident occurs, and secondly, continues by making an observation along with a recommendation concerning on the one hand, the lack of total harmonization of national laws and on the other, the time-consuming process of international cooperation through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) or Letter of Rogatory (LOR) processes, that both have short and far-reaching implications in the fight against cybercrime.

k.komnios@ihu.edu.gr

Stavrinides, Stavros

IHU