Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2018

Abstract

A political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, environment and legal (PESTEL) analysis is a framework or tool used to analyse and monitor the macro-environmental factors that have an impact on an organisation. The results identify threats and weaknesses which are used in a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis. In this paper the PESTEL framework was utilized to categorize hacktivism motivations for attack campaigns against certain companies, governments or industries. Our study is based on empirical evidence: of thirty-three hacktivism attack campaigns in manifesto level. Then, the targets of these campaigns were analysed and studied accordingly. As a result, we claim that connecting cyberattacks to motivations permits organizations to determine their external cyberattack risks, allowing them to perform more accurate risk-modeling.

Keywords

PESTEL analysis, online anonymity, hacktivism, cyberattack, political activism, strategic management, cybersecurity, information security, risk modeling, digital activism

Discipline

Technology and Innovation

Publication

Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference, NordSec 2018, Oslo, Norway, November 28-30

Volume

11252 LNCS

First Page

323

Last Page

335

ISBN

9783030036379

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-030-03638-6_20

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Cham

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

External URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057422076&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-03638-6_20&partnerID=40&md5=896bc90637b69a5b628b7f8a1a127f77

Comments

student pub

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03638-6_20

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