National Academies report offers recommendations for improving Justice Dept. cyber crime metrics

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has proposed in a new report a cyber crime classification framework for the Justice Department to improve metrics for law enforcement cyber incident reporting.

“Concern over cybercrime has increased as the internet has become a ubiquitous part of modern life. However, the U.S. national crime statistics system has limited coverage of cybercrime, and existing measurement and data efforts to track such crimes are fragmented and hampered by challenges such as underreporting, the...