Computers have become integral parts of the modern day homes and workplaces. Countries around the world continue to exhibit an encouraging trend of computer usage. Most academic institutions have invested in the best technology to keep their students equipped and informed. As for the workplaces, there is a gradual trend towards a possible future brimming with ‘paperless and shelf less offices’. The dependence on computers is increasing by the day as we are faced with better and faster machines geared up to fulfill operations that were not even imagined a few years back.

The usage of computers have opened up newer possibilities for commerce and given fresh lease of life to several industries. The flexibility and economic feasibility of the Internet has transformed the cyberspace into a colossal market abundant with opportunities. The cyberspace knows no boundaries, no parameters and no precincts as it connects people around the world. The cyber world has rendered our physical tangible world a much smaller place with distance and time being no longer constraints of the modern day human.

Computers and their influence have traversed into almost every sector. Business, travel, education, entertainment or any other industry cannot comprehend progress without the help of these machines, which look innocuous enough to be underestimated of their potential.

Students, professionals and organizations around the world need to understand the inescapable truth that computers are here to stay and in the definite future, it might be difficult to even move an inch without it having an effect on us. Considering the present trend, it has become almost obligatory for everyone to understand the jurisprudence that countries worldwide have framed to regulate and control the use of computers. The inevitable addiction to technology, even though has revolutionized our society with the boons of mobility and flexibility, but at the same time has rendered us potential victims to a handful willing to exploit their knowledge and skills. The alarming growth of cyber crimes is an issue, which nations are beginning to scrutinize in order to build better defense mechanisms. However the biggest defense to tech crimes is creating widespread awareness among the various sections of society, who after all are the most vulnerable.

It is a common folly to isolate cyber crime as the only focus of cyber jurisprudence, when in fact the study transcends into significant subjects like electronic commerce and cyber intellectual property rights, where there are economic possibilities but dearth of equipped professionals. The study of cyber laws hence can open doors to innumerable lucrative opportunities and can be seen as a viable next step to a successful career.