The Human Factor of Cyber Crime and Cyber Security

Challenges: September 11th has marked an important turning point that exposed new types of security threats and disclosed how cyber criminals pursuit of their long-term strategic objectives that could result in not only large scale human casualties but also profound damage to national power and prestige. According to recent studies and reports, violent extremists are trying to obtain insider position that may increase the impact of any attack on the critical infrastructure and there is also a probability that any terrorist group attacks may cause the collapse of any major critical infrastructure organization’s data. Based on these reports it is clear that their actions pose a significant threat that could potentially impact critical services, financial impact, people lives and even democracy. It is of utmost importance to adopt important measures in order to secure critical infrastructure and thus lower the level of threats while preserving the rights of citizens. States have an extreme interest in detecting malicious insiders and to counter human threats. Different agencies have invested billions of dollars in different technical measures for years now. Such as, access control implemented through passwords, authentication, biometric authentication and physical certification is recognizable as usernames and passwords pairs and firewalls, data leakage prevention and behavioral-pattern threat detection. However, various studies and researches demonstrate that security software devices are normally failed as these measures are normally designed to defend against external threats to secure critical infrastructure and do not protect against internal and external attacks aided by internal help in the organization.