Legal Aspects of Cybersecurity Artur Appazov

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Purpose and Scope 
The following material is the examination of literature on cybersecurity and cybercrime. 
Although the following material does not include examination of all existing writing in the 
area, it includes a number of important sources that are illustrative of the main issues 
covered in contemporary works on the matters of cybersecurity and cybercrime. The 
following material is presentation of the main themes and problems as reflected by the 
literature as a whole without providing separate reviews on specific academic or 
professional works. Rather, the result of the review is systematization of ideas and 
concerns as well as existing solutions on the problem of cybercrime and cybersecurity. It is 
an attempt to organize thinking and current state of academic knowledge on the issues of 
cybersecurity in its very general form as allowed by the limitations of the projects.
Despite the initial proposal for the material was examination of the literature on 
cybercrime, the closer analysis revealed that consideration of the issues of cybercrime in 
separation from a broader concern of cybersecurity would be incomplete and would fail to 
reflect the entire picture of the problem and risks associates with network technologies. 
Therefore, in addition to criminal matters the material discusses a wider range of 
considerations. 
The term cybercrime itself, first coined by William Gibson in 1982 and popularized in his 
novel 
Neuromancer
, became a popular descriptor of the “mentally constructed virtual 
environment within which networked computer activity takes place.”
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This term has come 
to symbolize the insecurity and risks online, and is generally referred to for description of 
the general concerns of cybersecurity. These terms are sometimes used interchangeably. 
Although these concepts have yet to receive clear legal definitions and are to some extent 
overlapping, in this work the term cybercrime refers to considerations of criminal law and 
is a subset of the general cybersecurity concept. Cybercrime therefore will be articulated as 
a component of cybersecurity in light of the general concerns and problems generated by 
the network and information technologies. 
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10 (Polity Press. 2007). 

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