Toward Cognitive Immunization of Potential Criminals against Cyberterrorism

Most research into preventing cyberterrorism, whether by foreign or domestic individuals, has focused on technical measures to detect or prevent the attacks. Such efforts presume that individuals are already radicalized and that events are inevitable. Our investigations look further back; we seek to understand and influence the events which occur long before the cyberterrorism attacks are formulated and perpetrated, when individuals experience psychological processes both cognitive and affective that lead them to form the intentions to engage in paradigm, looks at three principle root causes (1) techniques of neutralization, (2) expressive and instrumental crimes, and (3) perceptions of injustice and disgruntlement. We propose further research into these important factors that temporally precede the focal phenomenon.