Threats, challenges, solutions in cybersecurity: case of Transcaucasian Republics

Abstract

The article discusses current issues of cybersecurity of three Transcaucasian states in modern conditions, which affect a wide range of public interests, are widespread and assume a threatening scale throughout the region. This article gives general information about cybercrime, related problems, and measures to prevent it; describes the regulatory framework, the methods used for data analysis to confirm the hypothesis of the study, briefly discusses the indices used; focuses on studying the possibilities of statistical analysis in comparative analysis and assessment of the coherence of five general indicators reflecting countries' capacity to combat cybercrime. The practical results are based on the Student's t-statistic method, which provides a method for statistical hypothesis testing. A hypothesis is put forward about the influence of several indicators reflecting the level of development of a society on one indicator that determines the degree of a country's sensitivity to cyber threats. Statistical hypothesis testing allows for further observations regarding the characteristics of the general population based on sample data. These results and their interpretation are presented in the appropriate subsection. The study collected and analyzed data to better understand the impact of international economic, technological and social development indices on the country's cybersecurity indicators. In conclusion, the paper outlines the main trends in the development of cyber threats in the modern global information space and the measures necessary to neutralize them. The proposed model can be used in future research using data from completely different areas of economics, sociology and other social sciences. In this work, cybercrimes related to the political conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia are not considered.