Conference | Hybrid
Cybercrime - An ecosystem approach to digital space
This is the second in a series of lectures on key works in the field of law, cyberjustice and cybersecurity. In the form of a reading circle, Prof. Benoît Dupont will present his work, and a referee from another discipline, in this case Prof. Hugo Loiseau, will comment on it.
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Benoît Dupont is Professor of Criminology at the Université de Montréal, where he also holds the Canada Research Chair in Cyber-Resilience and the Research Chair in Cybercrime Prevention. Since 2020, he has led the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership, an interdisciplinary network of researchers, government agencies, companies and NGOs working together to design effective cybersecurity strategies and policies. In 2022, he also co-founded the Clinique de Cyber-criminologie and the online self-help platform Fraude-alerte.ca. His current research projects focus on security governance, the co-evolution of delinquency and technology from an ecological perspective, and effective cybercrime prevention policies.
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Hugo Loiseau is full professor and director of the School of Applied Politics at the Université de Sherbrooke. He specializes in the political and social issues of cybersecurity and digital identity. He is a member of Université de Sherbrooke's Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en cybersécurité (GRIC). He is also a member of OBVIA's Pôle d'expertise en cybersécurité et impacts sociétaux. His latest publication: Daniel Ventre and Hugo Loiseau, Cybercrime during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (2019-2022), Wiley, 2023.
Book presentation
What are the reasons why digital products and services are so easy for cybercriminals to exploit, how do cybercriminals organize and adapt to improve their performance, and what are the responses of security organizations?
At a time when cybercrime is proliferating in contemporary societies and gradually replacing traditional forms of delinquency, this book proposes a novel approach to analyzing this phenomenon. Using concepts and methods specific to ecology - community, entity, competitive relationships, predation, collaboration and emergent effects - this handbook examines and explains the emergence of this new form of crime. The ecological perspective thus provides a rich repertoire of tools for revealing the complex interweaving of interactions between legal and illegal actors that has led to the proliferation of cybercrimes observed over the past quarter-century, as well as to the implementation of institutional responses that are as varied as they are promising.
Faced with a phenomenon that may seem out of control, this book also proposes concrete solutions to improve user security, based in particular on more effective and diversified collaborative configurations between public and private players.
