Determinants of Preventing Cyber Crime: a Survey Research

Abstract

This paper presents the results of research on the determinants of preventing cyber crime among Bumiputera entrepreneurs involved in the online business. With regards to the cyber crime issues that has been tremendously become a national issue, thus, this research is carried out with the aim of identifying what are the determinants factor for preventing cyber crime to the online business entrepreneur in Malaysia and Perak specifically. The research looks upon the factors such as law enforcement, awareness program, and prevention process in combating cybercrime issue. A survey was conducted and the questionnaires were distributed to the respondents who were mainly online entrepreneurs. The data was gathered from three groups of online entrepreneurs; in the district of Kinta, Manjung and Larut, Matang & Selama, Perak. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Based on the result of this research, we found a positive relationship between preventing cyber crime against law enforcement, attitude awareness, ethics, and IT Technology. The research objective questions have also been met by the results of the analysis made on the sample of entrepreneurs. At the end of the chapter, there are some recommendations highlighted as a scheme to combat cyber crime issues and future research study for expansion and accuracy of the analysis.