From the description:
The newly launched fully open access Journal of Cybersecurity publishes accessible articles describing original research in the inherently interdisciplinary world of computer, systems, and information security. The journal is premised on the belief that computer science-based approaches, while necessary, are not sufficient to tackle cybersecurity challenges. Instead, scholarly contributions from a range of disciplines are needed to understand the human aspects of cybersecurity. Journal of Cybersecurity provides a hub around which the interdisciplinary cybersecurity community can form, and is committed to providing quality conceptual and empirical research, as well as scholarship, that is grounded in real-world implications and solutions.
From the first editorial:
The Journal of Cybersecurity (JCS) is a new, open-access publication from Oxford University Press, developed specifically to deliver a venue that can bridge the many different disciplines and specialisms in information security. Future successes in cybersecurity policy and practice will depend on dialogue, knowledge transfer, and collaboration.
JCS publishes accessible articles describing original research in the inherently interdisciplinary world of computer, systems, and information security. JCS is premised on the belief that computer science-based approaches, while necessary, are not sufficient to tackle cybersecurity challenges. Instead, scholarly contributions from a range of disciplines are needed to understand the human aspects of cybersecurity. JCS provides a hub around which the interdisciplinary cybersecurity community can form. JCS is committed to providing quality empirical research, as well as scholarship, that is grounded in real-world implications and solutions. It will appeal to academics and researchers in security and related fields, senior security managers in industry, and policy-makers in government.
JCS will initially publish research on the following aspects of cybersecurity: anthropological and cultural studies; computer science and security, including mathematical and systems perspectives; security and crime science; cryptography and associated topics; security economics; human factors and psychology; law and regulation; political and policy perspectives; strategy and international relations; and privacy.
I first saw this in A New Journal — Dedicated to Cybersecurity by Susan Landau. Editors in chief are David Pym and Tyler Moore.
Take note that the Journal of Cybersecurity is an open-access journal. Rather unlike the FBI cybersecurity database where you can obtain access only if the FBI decides you are trustworthy. Given their history, you have to wonder what standard they are using for “trustworthy.” We used to call that “security by obscurity.” Never worked, at least not well.
Glad to see JCS is taking an open approach to cybersecurity. The more we all know, the more we can protect ourselves and others.
PS: Yes, I am aware of the identifier conflict of JCS as in Journal of Cybersecurity and JCS as in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies. I know that was the first thing that came to mind when you saw JCS.
Personally I would use a scoping property set to cybersecurity for one and ancient near eastern studies for the other, just as a precaution against confused search results.
Another difference is that the Journal of Cybersecurity is open access and the Journal of Cuneiform Studies is not. You wouldn’t want just anyone reading: Back to the Cedar Forest: The Beginning and End of Tablet V of the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš (pp. 69-90) F. N. H. Al-Rawi and A. R. George.
I suppose some organizations learn more quickly than others.