Specifics of Crime in Digital Space
Viktoria S. Kirilenko, R.D. Zhmurko · Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Management Trends and the Digital Economy: from Regional Development to Global Economic Growth” (MTDE 2020) · 2020
This paper discusses all measures to combat digital crime, which may be divided into technical, organizational, and legal ones.Technical measures include the protection against unauthorized access to a computer system, backing up important computer systems, taking structural measures to protect against theft and sabotage, providing backup power, developing and implementing special software and hardware security systems, and much more.Organizational measures include the protection of computer systems, the selection of personnel, the elimination of cases of especially important work being done by only one person, the availability of a plan for restoring the center's performance after failure, the organization of service of the computer center by a third-party organization or persons uninterested in hiding the facts of the center's disruptions, the flexibility of means of protection against all users (including top management), imposing responsibility on persons who should ensure the safety of the center, the choice of the location of the center, etc. Legal measures should include the development of standards establishing responsibility for computer crimes, the protection of copyrights of programmers, the improvement of criminal and civil law, as well as legal proceedings.Legal measures should also include issues of public control over the developers of computer systems and the adoption of relevant international measures.