The protoscience of cybersecurity

Eric N Hatleback

The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2018, vol. 15, issue 1, 5-12

Abstract: I argue that marking a proper distinction between two types of research in the cybersecurity field obviates the present debate concerning a “science of cybersecurity.†Once the terminology has been properly disambiguated, the accurate descriptor for the current state of the practice of cybersecurity becomes apparent: it is a protoscience. Further, once a definition for ‘science’ is specified, it becomes clear that the protoscientific state is capable of trending in the proper direction, namely toward science and away from pseudoscience.

Keywords: Philosophy of science; cybersecurity; science of cybersecurity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1548512917737635

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