Cyber security Challenges in Enterprises - A Socio-Organizational Approach -Cybercrime as a model –

Abstract

Cybercrime is one of the most important and attractive topics especially for researchers, scholars, social scientists, and cyber-security specialists, due to its negative impact on individuals as well as institutions, it can also cause significant financial and material loss. This made some institutions allocate large sums of money to establish cyber-security, protect their reputation and its properties and components, maintain their position in the labor market, also their relationship with their customers and suppliers.

Therefore, this research focused on cybercrime because of its spread in both local and international communities posing a threat to the most important and largest economic institutions, and sometimes even to social organizations, as it is carried out by a technocratic group composed of technicians who are capable of computer science and have extensive knowledge in information field. This study came within the framework of theoretical and analytical based on the descriptive approach to suit the analysis, diagnosis, and understanding of the phenomenon and come up with preventive recommendations and other corrective treatment directed to the parties threatened by this type of crime.