Urgent Issues in Cybercrime - Assignment Example

Regions that require high security are those with valuable items, potentially dangerous materials, and information. The ease of intrusion depends on the security system used. It is essential that the system implemented meets the intended function. The system’s function should be carefully monitored to understand its weakness and strengths. The understudy company uses security guards at the entrance, but once someone is within the building, he or she is free to roam around. Although there are cameras and motion sensors, they are deactivated during the day and are fewer in number. During the installation of these security items, distribution was not taken into consideration. The weakness, therefore, is the deactivation and distribution. Furthermore, the company lacks offsite monitoring; this offers an opportunity for an intruder to access a restricted area and escape before being noticed. Craighead suggests that “in the case of offsite monitoring, once notified of an intrusion alarm, the central station staff will either notify security staff at the building” (2009, p. 310).

Insecurity over secured places is often critical. Aside from the presence of security personnel, the most appropriate additional system is the use of technology. An intrusion system is quite an effective security solution. Intrusion systems offer security alerts to security guards and other responsible individuals. The intrusion alert systems incorporate infrastructure that provides adequate security requirements. According to Barnard, “a physical security system consists of four equally important interacting functions: delay, detect, alert and respond” (1988, p. 1). The whole complete system is worthy of adequate security.

The information revolution mirrors the advancement of computerized information and the growth in communication technologies. Arguments show that information is turning into a strategic resource that is valuable and has great influence in the current industrial age (Arquilla & Ronfledt, n.d.). History has shown that military doctrines have continually passed through changes rallied behind technological evolvement; with this growth, crime has also found its way into the greater use of technology to match the advancing security technologies. To this height, it has seen this competition move to cyberspace and its related networking.  According to Andress and Jason, cybercrime has been defined as a “notional environment in which digitalized information is being communicated over computer networks” (2013, p. 3).

There are two given articles narrating about cybercrime: A Stuxnet Future? Yes, Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Already Here, and Thinking Again: Cyber War. The explanations of the two articles are intensive, reflecting the extent and potentiality of cybercrime. However, I find that “Thinking Again: Cyber War” an article by Rid has arguably brought out what cybercrime entails as compared to “A Stuxnet Future? Yes, Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Already Here” (2012) which in itself, has argued that actors can cause cyber damage even without an internet connection.

Further reasons prompting my suggestion that the article by Rid (2012) has deeply dealt with cybercrime is its constant use of appropriate examples, the case citation is Estonia ordeal. As explained in April 2007, the well-networked country was a victim of intrusion; it had several of its websites attacked including the online banking services. As for Stuxnet crime, Rid (2012) has extensively explained it putting it in the context of cyber criminality; the article explains that “all the functionality required to sabotage a system was embedded directly in the Stuxnet executable” (n.p.).