Discussion, Implications and Concluding Remarks

Abstract

Modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) have a double-edged sword consequence. The states can use them to enhance the security of the cyber as well as the physical world. For instance, new ICTs have enhanced the states’ ability to police cross-border flows of people, goods, services, money and information and will continue to do so (Andreas, 2011). They not only aid but also challenge the states, however. The states have faced a unique governance challenge associated with the Internet and they are finding that the degree of trumping power over illicit actors is declining. A related point is, while crime in general is described as “an integral part of globalization” (Friman, 2009), cybercrime can be considered as a natural, inevitable, inescapable and indispensable consequence of the development of modern ICTs.