ABSTRACT
Introduction Cybersecurity has become a critical issue in society today. Public, private, and governmental sectors are all facing increasing cyber-threats due to their evergrowing reliance on complex and vital computing technologies. It is estimated that cybercrime costs the global economy about $445 billion a year, mostly due to theft of intellectual property within developed countries and sale of stolen personal information (Sandle & Char, 2014). Unfortunately, hackers routinely share cybercriminal assets that exploit computer technologies (e.g., malicious tools, source code examples, tutorials, services) with each other, resulting in cybercrime being more accessible to individuals of varying skill levels (Benjamin & Chen, 2012; Holt et al., 2012; Samtani et al., 2015). The increased reliance on cyber infrastructure, as well as an ever-increasing number of threats, presents challenging problems for researchers, practitioners, and society.
