Using Robust Data Governance to Mitigate the Impact of Cybercrime

The Deloitte's report (2015) on cybersecurity trends states that emerging technologies, coupled with a shifting threat profile, are challenging organizations to deal more and more with sophisticated "bad actors" that are motivated, skilled, and adaptable 1. There is little doubt that cybercrime is growing more rapidly than cybersecurity measures are able to deal with and businesses and governments have never been more at risk from cyberattacks. In this paper, we ask the question, 'what are some of the robust data governance practices that can be put in place to forestall cybercrime?' We also asked the question, 'are there some research papers that have been published to address this concern? We then took a deep into extant literature to find out. Furthermore, we proposed a cybercrime mitigation framework using robust data governance. Our literature synthesis revealed that there is little research that investigated the concept of data governance and cybercrime together, which leads us to propose research hypotheses for a future quantitative research.