The Importance of Defining Cybersecurity from a Transdisciplinary Approach

Bilquis Ferdousi

This paper presents a transdisciplinary approach to define the field of cybersecurity. The main purpose of this study is to enhance the understanding of the impact of cybersecurity in different aspects of life, improving the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary relation focusing on the impact of cybersecurity on other disciplines. The more specific purpose is to determine how cybersecurity professionals, including academics and researchers, can better approach cybersecurity as a transdisciplinary field to ensure data security and privacy. The paper focuses on how cybersecurity affects the different aspects of society, such as legal systems, online business and services, etc., on personal and organizational levels. Additionally, it focuses on how trans-disciplinarity involves academic researchers from different, unrelated academic disciplines as well as non-academic stakeholders or end-users to create new knowledge. Based on the extensive literature review on multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity research in cybersecurity, this study found that a transdisciplinary approach is needed to ensure cybersecurity in organizational and individual level. For that purpose, the academics, researchers, and practitioners from different disciplines must engage with their content extending beyond their traditional academic boundaries and reaching out to non-academic stakeholders or end-users of digital technology.

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