Cyber attacks: Does physical boundary matter?

• Main Authors: QIU-HONG WANG, KIM, Seung-Hyun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Information security; cyber attacks; interdependence; physical boundary; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3300; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4302/viewcontent/Cyberattacks_DoesPhysicalBoundryMatter_2009.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Information security issues are characterized with interdependence. Particularly, cyber criminals can easily cross national boundaries and exploit jurisdictional limitations between countries. Thus, whether cyber attacks are spatially autocorrelated is a strategic issue for government authorities an...