ABSTRACT
A great weakness afflicting the ability of social sciences to debate intelligently the implications of cyber in all its forms – cyber security, cyber warfare, cyber espionage, cyber terrorism and cybercrime, among others – is a lack of affinity with the basic scientific underpinnings and technical realities behind cyberspace itself. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol requires several layers to operate and is the foundation on which data exchange at the software level occurs in cyberspace. With cyberspace resulting from the fruits of many technical innovations, a true product of collaborative research ventures across decades, governance too was only ever going to continue in the same vein by following this collaborative and multi-stakeholder nature. Cybercrime and other uses of cyberspace for nefarious activities have become a core concern in Western countries, with private industry and scholarship alike struggling to keep up with the surge of data in this arena.
