Cyber security has a significant impact on interactions between offenders and victims. Cyber technology has enabled offenders to remain anonymous, have a major psychological impact on the victims, increase access to potential victims, communicate more easily, and exploit vulnerabilities.

The anonymity that cybersecurity grants make it difficult for the victims to gauge the authenticity of online interaction, and the availability of instant communication and open source gathering from social media platforms allows offenders to pick and choose their victims.

Cyber stalking and cyber-harassment differ from the traditional sense because they occur from computers and other digital devices, which a majority of the population of developed countries own, and nearly everyone with access to a computer of some sort has a digital imprint on any online activity they have done.

Given the “short arm” of a predictive knowledge, the development of cyber-policy and infrastructure should be approached with caution. Although we do not process the “long arm” of predictive knowledge, we must do what we can with the present knowledge to be able to handle future implications thrown at us. Applying an educated well analyzed predictive knowledge in combination with other means of policy designs can be ideal in applying it proactively as supposed to reactive.

Cyber infrastructure and policy today should be handled in a manner that tackles the problems of today. The NIST framework and the upkeep of the CIA Triad is what we currently know as cyber-personnel and as long as the current system works to the full potential, we should be able to continue on the path we are on fixing problems of today while doing our best to prevent issues of the future.