A (Cyber)ROAD to the Future: A Methodology for Building Cybersecurity Research Roadmaps

We describe the roadmapping method developed in the context of the CyberROAD EU FP7 project, the aim of which was to develop a research roadmap for cybercrime and cyberterrorism. To achieve this aim we build on state-of-the-art methodologies and guidelines, as well as related projects, and adapt them to the specific characteristics of cybercrime and cyberterrorism. The distinctive feature is that cybercrime and cyberterrorism co-evolve with their contextual environment (i.e., technology, society, politics and economy). This poses specific challenges to a roadmapping effort. Our approach could become a best practice in the field of cybersecurity, and could also be generalised to phenomena that exhibit a similar, strong co-evolution with their contextual environment. In this chapter, we define our route to developing the CyberROAD research roadmap and contextualise it with an example of Enterprise 2.0.