Epistemological Questions for Cybersecurity
Timothy D. Williams · 2020
The purpose of this theoretical paper is to facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue between cybersecurity researchers and those from other disciplines regarding the roots of knowledge. The approach taken is to articulate explicit questions about the origins of cybersecurity knowledge based on the author's reflections on common ground and differences between cybersecurity knowledge creation practices and selected epistemological sources. Although no independent evidence is presented for the validity or utility of these questions, the author hopes to refine these questions and the underlying assumptions on which they are based both through feedback on this paper and future empirical studies.