Surge in Crime-Related Title Adoptions Reflects Awareness of Digital Security

By IGI Global on Dec 20, 2010
The malls are not the only crowded places during the holiday season. The internet shopping numbers are projected to be the highest in recent years. With the rise in online retail traffic, cyber criminals are taking advantage of the naïve and uninformed shoppers who may not exercise the appropriate precautions when purchasing items on retailers' websites.

Recent trends in the IGI Global titles that have been requested for course adoption have shown that many professors have taken a greater interest in computer, network, internet, and cyber security. Titles most recently adopted include:

  • Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace
Edited By: Panagiotis Kanellis, Evangelos Kiountouzis, Nicholas Kolokotronis and Drakoulis Martakos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Digital forensics is the science of collecting evidence often used in a court of law to prosecute those who engage in digital activities that are deemed unlawful. Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace is unique in putting together a number of contributions from leading experts in digital forensics and associated fields, making information on this new and complex subject available in one source of reference that addresses its multifaceted nature. The chapters in this book depict the nature of the crime and the motives of the criminals before proceeding to analyze the type of attacks one must understand in order to be prepared. Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace also covers incident preparedness and the tools that are available to the digital investigator, as well as issues that pertain to the education and skills that this new professional must be able to display.

  • Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems
Edited By: Lin Liu, University of Cincinnati, USA and John Eck, University of Cincinnati, USA
In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth in interest in crime pattern analysis. Geographic information systems are now widely used in urban police agencies throughout industrial nations. With this, scholarly interest in understanding crime patterns has grown considerably. Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems discusses leading research on the use of computer simulation of crime patterns to reveal hidden processes of urban crimes, taking an interdisciplinary approach by combining criminology, computer simulation, and geographic information systems into one comprehensive resource.

Forthcoming titles that will be appropriate for future course adoption include:

  • Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications and Cyber Security
Edited By: Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University, USA and Bernadette H. Schell, President's Advisor on Cybercrime, University of Ontario, Canada & Vice-Provost at Laurentian University
In an age when computer crime is growing at a exponential rate and on a global scale, industry and government leaders are increasingly reliant upon answers from the academic and IT Security fields in order to keep cyber crime in check, and be ahead of the "cyber criminal curve." Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications addresses various aspects of hacking and technology-driven crime, including the ability to understand computer-based threats, identify and examine attack dynamics, and find solutions. Including findings from experts in Criminal Justice, Business, and Information Technology Security from around the world, this book presents current research undertakings and findings in order to find interdisciplinary solutions to the complex domain of cyber crime and network breaches.

  • Cyber Security, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics: Applications and Perspectives
Edited By: Raghu Santanam, Arizona State University, USA; M. Sethumadhavan, Amrita University, India; Mohit Virendra, Brocade Communications Systems, USA
Recent developments in cyber security, crime, and forensics have attracted researcher and practitioner interests from technological, organizational and policy-making perspectives. Technological advances address challenges in information sharing, surveillance and analysis, but organizational advances are needed to foster collaboration between federal, state and local agencies as well as the private sector. Cyber Security, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics: Applications and Perspectives provides broad coverage of technical and socio-economic perspectives for utilizing information and communication technologies and developing practical solutions in cyber security, cyber crime and cyber forensics.
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