Banca de DEFESA: EMERSON DE BARROS DUARTE

CYBERCRIMES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES – A TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDY ON THE BRAZILIAN PUBLIC SECURITY CASE

Digital Humanities, Public Security, Cybercrime, Descriptive Statistics, Information Systems

The internet has brought, among other advances, agility, and ease of use of distributed
services, the massive production of data has changed and continues to transform
relationships between people, organizations, and governments. However, despite of these
benefits, criminal organizations have also evolved and adapted, starting to operate
intensively in this new digital territory, including taking advantage of the global reach of
their actions, geopolitical instabilities, and the difficulties of national States in protecting
their citizens against cybercrimes. This dissertation has a transdisciplinary approach, it
seeks to investigate the intersection of the Digital Humanities and the process of digital
transformation, focusing on the growing phenomenon of cybercrime. In this work we
developed a method to create a dataset related to cybercrimes that occurred between the
years 2000 and 2021, we collected real data from more than 30 Brazilian public security
institutions. Data were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively to understand the
Brazilian scenario of cybercrime. Additionally, this dissertation also presents and
discusses a conceptual proposal of a computational artifact that can be considered as an
initial contribution to increase cyber resilience of Brazilian State or augment cyber
security of public institutions to support citizens regarding the mitigation of problems
related to most serious cybercrimes.