Combating Cyber Crime: How Can Technology Intervention Supplement Legal Provisioning?

摘要

The present paper has proposed a model to show that a synergy of technology and legal procedure can work as deterrent to cybercrime. The fraudulent activities the model considers are of two types. The first one is the case when the processed information gets diverted to reach someone else rather than reaching its targeted destination, thereby creating an incidence of data theft and hacking. The second one is a case of already hacked situation. The model has established that in the present-day context, synergic efforts of technology and legal provisioning can emerge as an effective option to ensure cyber security to some significant extent. The application of the proposed model in practical field is also illustrated with the analysis of a case of cybercrime.