All too often, cyber space seems a vast and unregulated “Wild West,” where anarchy is the norm and criminal justice remains by-and-large a concept rarely enforced. What’s more, the Internet cloaks cybercriminals under a blanket of anonymity, where they have the ability to take down international governments and large-scale corporations at the touch of a button from any where in the world.
It’s no secret that the “lawless” nature of cyberspace has become an accepted status-quo - so much so that high-profile cybercrime, international privacy breaches and cyber espionage have experienced exponential growth in recent years.