Cybersecurity: A New Framework for the Information Economy
The government's role as a digital platform brings with it challenges including the possibility that the freedom of expression and the right to privacy conflict with each other in the digital space. The citizen's privacy becomes exposed to new vulnerabilities. A citizen's voice, vote and changes in status, can be stolen or sabotaged with catastrophic individual and national consequences. Individual digital identity also must fall under digital property laws. One citizen's exercise of free speech can be trespassing of digital space for another citizen. The jurisdiction of the state in digital space must be redefined. The writ of the state in digital space must be more pervasive, and yet more narrowly defined,to protect the rights of all citizens.
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Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Service Sector, Consumer, State
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(1) Muhammad Tehsin
Assistant Professor, Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i- Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Cyber Laws and Cyber Security in Pakistan: Myths and Realities
The evolving nature of warfare is characterized by technology's ability to adapt and attack enemies in different ways at different times and places. This adaptability also extends to the realm of cybersecurity, where billions of dollars are illegally transferred, data breaches occur, national secrets are compromised, and critical public infrastructure is hacked. Pakistan, like many other countries, is not immune to these challenges. Pakistan recently experienced a massive cyberattack against a major institutional website, resulting in a successful intrusion by hackers. In response, Pakistani lawmakers introduced a cyber law, but at the time the scale and complexity of these new threats were not fully recognized. To protect itself from such risks, it is important for Pakistan to stay vigilant
and continuously adapt its cybersecurity measures to meet the evolving cyber threat landscape.
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Cybersecurity, Warfare Adaptation, Global Threat, Illicit Transfers, Cyber- Attacks, Cyber Laws, CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
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(1) Muhammad Tahir
Assistant Professor, Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
(2) Tahreem Farrukh
Assistant Professor, School of Law, Karachi University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Shahid
MA, LLM, Advocate High Court, Pakistan.
Nexus between Pakistani Firm's Profitability and Foreign Direct Investment
Globalization and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) have a very strong association. FDI increases competition, externalities, domestic firm profitability, technology transfer, knowledge transfer, manpower training, market networking, and economic benefits. This study examined how foreign direct investment affects Pakistani banks' profits. The analysis used 1996–2015 time series data. EViews estimated the research model. The study uses the autoregressive model for finding any association between the response variable, profitability of domestic companies, and the net FDI inflows (percentage of GDP), FDI (foreign direct investment), and four response variable lags. Return on Assets (ROA) quantified domestic firm profitability. The model indicated and the coefficient showed that ROA and FDI and FDI per capita have a positive significant association, but ROA and ROA (-4) in the host country have a negative significant link. Pakistani firms will profit more as FDI increases.
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Awareness of Cybersecurity, Cyberattacks, Readiness, SMB
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(1) Noor Jehan
Department of Economics, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KP Pakistan.
(2) Fahim Nawaz
Department of Economics, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Ali Zeb
School of Business, Zhengzhou University, Henan, The People's Republic of China.