Cyber Law and Regulation

Abstract

The rise of cyber attackers and concerns about cyber espionage, cybercrime, and cyber warfare have focused the attention of governments, private industry and policy makers in recent years creating a greater need for laws and regulation in the cyber domain. It is no longer sufficient to understand the laws of your own country when it comes to our networked global society. Courts and parliaments around the world must update the law as technology continues to evolve and as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud computing and autonomous machines continue to advance and impact the security of national governments, businesses, and individual privacy. Since it would be an impossible task to cover all laws and regulations governing cyberspace, this chapter focuses on an overview of cyber regulation and the cyber regulators from a distributive, transnational, regional, and national perspective.