Blockchain is one of the most disruptive innovations in the field of technology in 21st century. Blockchain, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) and smart contracts, has emerged as a ground-breaking application in the financial sector. The three key properties of Blockchain technology,...

The recent Pegasus Project revelations of about half a lakh people across the world, including several in India, being targeted for cyber surveillance has firmly brought the spotlight on the Pegasus spyware, which is widely understood to be the most sophisticated smartphone attack tool. The...

This paper explores whether IT and audit professionals have different perceptions of the substantive and symbolic perspectives of information security assurance and the role of security configuration management (SCM) using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Importance...

Two decades of economics research has repeatedly made the assertion that organizations as well as individuals do not have adequate incentive to invest in cybersecurity. Absent security, associated costs are imposed on third parties rather than producers of insecurity. Cybersecurity is thus a...

Information security necessitates the implementation of safeguards to guarantee an adequate defense against attacks, threats, and breaches from occurring. Nonetheless, even with “adequate” defensive efforts, the taste for accessing sensitive and confidential financial information is too...

Access to data and systems of Electronic System Organizers (ESOs) is a sensitive issue because it is considered a means of coercion (dwang middelen) that might infringe personal data protection, freedom of speech, individual privacy that also related to intellectual property rights and trade...