Preventive strategies and dealing with threats and vulnerabilities in cyber space

Police officers are exposed to all kinds of security and non-security damages in the cyber space. In such a way that the channels affiliated with the enemies of the system are continuously trying to achieve their malicious goals by influencing the minds, changing the vision and attitude, and religious beliefs of the employees. And based on this, the aim of the current research is to identify the counter and preventive strategies of the police against the threats and harms originating in the cyber space.

This research is applied-developmental in terms of purpose; In terms of data type, it is mixed (qualitative-quantitative). In the qualitative part, the content analysis method was used using the coding method and using the Atlas.ti software, and the participants are experts in the field of virtual space, who were selected based on theoretical saturation, a total of 30. In the quantitative part, a survey method (questionnaire and Delphi model) was used, and the statistical population was selected as a total number of 30 experts in the field of virtual space.

In the analysis, 16 cases of counter-strategic goals and 10 cases of preventive strategies were identified and provided to the experts in the form of a questionnaire to study the fuzzy average of the components, and then Minkowski's formula was used to calculate the fuzzy average. Triangulation of each factor, determined fuzzy numbers for that factor were calculated and prioritization of strategies was done. The results show that creating a culture for using virtual space and the possibility of producing appropriate content; enlightening, informing and protecting employees in different ways; Using emerging technologies and cover infrastructure to carry out operational and advanced measures; carrying out intelligence actions on the opponent's agents and restraining him; increasing the scientific and experimental ability of employees and its continuation; Expediting information about the latest developments and methods and tricks of the virtual space and providing consulting services, etc. are the identified priority strategies.