Measuring and Studying Cybercrime
Lord Kelvin famously suggested that if you were unable to measure something then your knowledge would be "meagre and unsatisfactory" and studying it would not be "science". That's clearly where cybercrime research is today. I'll explore what we currently know, the challenges in getting any plausible measurements, and how a new initiative at Cambridge may get more researchers into the field.
Richard Clayton
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Richard Clayton is the Director of the Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre. The Centre intends to build one of the largest and most diverse data sets about cybercrime that any organisation holds and more importantly aims to make this data available to other academics for them to apply their own skills to address cybercrime issues. Academics currently face considerable difficulties in researching cybercrime and the centre intends to drive a step change in the amount of cybercrime research by making datasets available, not just of URLs but content as well, so that other academics can concentrate on their particular areas of expertise and start being productive immediately.
