How fear of ‘jackbooted brownshirts’ complicates cyber risk management

Managing the risk posed by the “dark web” is made all the more difficult by some people’s mistrust of police, a former top Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer suggested Thursday.

“Cyber crime requires a different approach than just the preventative hardening of cyber security systems,” former RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told Payments Canada Summit attendees Thursday. He added cyber crime is “complicated” by several factors, including privacy concerns.

Internet users can easily conceal illegal activity from police in Canada, Paulson argued during his presentation, Framing an Approach to Cyber Crime, at the Payments Canada Summit.

On the so-called “dark web,” criminals can “transact pretty well anything,” including buying information…