Research Priorities in Information and Computer Networks Security in Palestine (original) (raw)

Research Priorities in Information and Computer

2016

In Palestine, 44.7% of the population is under 16 with literacy rate of 91.9% over all of the population. More than half of Palestinian youth own computers and have access to the Internet. With such prospect, ensuring information security and spreading awareness of it is one of the main challenges facing researchers on a national level. In this paper, we will identify three challenges which researchers in Palestine can attack. In each one, we will state the motivation, the background and possible outlooks and research directions.

Information security and digital divide in the Arab world

2014

The so-called ‘Digital Divide’ is a discrepancy in access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In recent years, the meaning of this expression has become more nuanced and is no longer dependent on inability to have the new ICT which has become increasingly available, but depends more on the control of resources that guarantee the security of information. As with other developing countries around the world, the Digital Divide exists both within and between countries in the Arab world. Factors that determine the Divide are connectivity, knowledge, education, and economic capacity. Furthermore, there is a mutual impact between such a Digital Divide and information security in Arab countries. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in its 2013 report, gave a comprehensive global analysis of the Digital Divide. The present paper uses this ITU report as a basis to explore the Digital Divide in the Arab world and seeks to fill the absence of recent sub-skills data thr...

Israel and Cyberspace: Unique Threat and Response

This article provides insights into the dangers and opportunities that the cyber realm poses to states by conducting the first comprehensive case study on Israeli use of cyberspace. Israel faces a constant barrage of cyberattacks from actors ranging from states to hacker groups to individuals. This has forced Israel to develop highly advanced capabilities. Israel has not just faced cyberattacks but has also been a leader in using the cyber realm for offense. Although the threats to Israel are severe, they are not unique; thus, Israel can serve as a model for what other states can do to effectively use cyberspace both defensively and offensively. This article offers policy recommendations as to how states can improve their cyber defenses.

THREAT ON THE INTERNET—NEW ARENA OF CHALLENGES

Impact Factor(JCC): 1.1947-This article can be downloaded from www.bestjournals.in ABSTRACT In recent years the convergence of religious fundamentalism and political activism has been a disturbing trend. Terrorists mostly target for most impact in conjunction of loss of life. However the terrorist first engages in targeting the violence against a country which is powerful and later it can be towards symbolic representation of technical advancement and power. Such instances are many to quote. Subsequently the terrorists targets towards technical advancement to endanger technical ability of a nation. Terrorist activities which is an innovation through implementation of technology by these terrorist in the age of information by giving it a new version—'techno-terrorism' and cyber terrorism. 'Cyber Terrorism' is the new form of terror that has to do more with 'information attacks' on a nation's computer system and information and infrastructure. Computers are the most modern crime contrivance today. The other testing legal question is when does internet activity involves actus reus.? it will prove difficult who had the thought first—the person or the machine. Finally, the authors discuss the impact of this new dimension of cyber terrorism-has on the public at large and the governments in the way in which one should build one's defenses and counter this new dimension of cyber terrorism.