Research Article
Unraveling Cybercrime in India: A Fuzzy ISM Approach to Antecedents and Outcomes
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.28-4-2025.2358072, author={Srijan Pateriya and Pushkar Dubey and Parul Dubey}, title={Unraveling Cybercrime in India: A Fuzzy ISM Approach to Antecedents and Outcomes}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Technology, Civil Innovation, Science, and Management, ICITSM 2025, 28-29 April 2025, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India, Part II}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICITSM PART II}, year={2025}, month={10}, keywords={cybercrime cybersecurity india fuzzy ism digital trust cybercrime antecedents cybercrime outcomes structural modeling}, doi={10.4108/eai.28-4-2025.2358072} }- Srijan Pateriya
Pushkar Dubey
Parul Dubey
Year: 2025
Unraveling Cybercrime in India: A Fuzzy ISM Approach to Antecedents and Outcomes
ICITSM PART II
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-4-2025.2358072
Abstract
This research analyses the causes and effects of Cybercrime in India by conducting structured analysis using Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling (Fuzzy ISM). It discusses how systemic dependencies among main variables including technology development, low cybersecurity awareness, digital divide, and institutional weakness influence the aggregate effect of the variables on cybercrime incidence and its outcome in society. Hierarchical ordering of the influences is disclosed, with reminder of technological progression, poor consciousness, and economic discrepancies serving as ground-level causes of vulnerabilities over cyber networks. These forces invariably increase the vulnerability to cybercrime, causing or intensifying psychic harm, large scale economic damage, real national security threats, and diminishing the goodwill of the public toward online space. The model suggested contributes to both concept and practice along with subsystem implication of building cybersecurity resilience in India.
