What’s so unique about cyber security?

Abstract

The fields of Cyber Security and Privacy are among the fastest growing areas in technological development. With the increasing digitisation of key utilities and infrastructures, and the continuing exponential growth in the use of networked information and communications technologies (NICT) comes a concomitant growth in the need for security and privacy. While there are significant opportunities for profitable activity in these domains; the processes of innovation and garnering the requisite critical mass of users for a given system are fraught with difficulties some of which are unique to cyber security and privacy.