A Comparative Study on Cyber Crime Mitigation Models

With the advancement of technology and smartphones, most of the transactions are performed online. This increased dependence on online transactions has resulted in the perpetration of cyber-crime. Any crime committed using electronic gadgets can be termed as Cybercrime. Cybercrime revenues are estimated at 1.5 trillion dollars for the year 2018. Lack of awareness in Cybercrime vigilance and reporting leads to many such crimes going unreported. This paper gives an insight into types of Cybercrime and reporting mechanism. A model has been proposed which would remove the bottlenecks of existing mechanism and lead to effective cyber-crime investigation. The paper would be of immense help to the stakeholders such as online users, investigative agencies and cyber-crime researchers.