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Cyber Power
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Cyber Power

by Solange Ghernaouti-Helie
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
15h 17m
English
EPFL Press
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Chapter 4
Cybercrimes Against Assets
4.1 Understanding the context
The Internet enables economic crime
As we have seen, cybercrime is the natural extension of ordinary criminal
activity. Today, criminal acts are committed across cyberspace, separately
from or alongside crimes.
Because of the networking of resources and individuals, cybercrime is
highly effective. Not only companies, but also their information technologies
and assets, can become attractive targets for criminal organizations in search
of prot. This is a strategic threat to businesses, considering the fact that a
business’s assets can take the form of information rather then merely being
physical items to be secured.
By opening the corporate gates to the Internet through web servers ...
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ISBN: 9781466573048