Research Guides: Public Service & Administration: Cybersecurity

Computing and Cyber Research Databases

Compendex
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
Inspec
Indexing of the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering with more than 8 million records from 1896 to the present.
ACM Digital Library
Full text access to journals, proceedings, and ebooks published by Association for Computing Machinery.
IEEE Xplore
Digital library providing full text access to the world's literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics, it contains full text documents from IEEE and IET publications.

Trade & Marketing Information on Cyber

FACCTS (Faulkner's Advisory on Computer & Communications Technologies)
Contains reports, vendor profiles, and product solutions on computer systems, software, networking, and telecom technologies.

Cyber Security Trends and Initiatives

Public Service cybersecurity faces an intensifying battle against sophisticated attacks. Potential attackers can come from various segments, but of interest may be those powered by artificial intelligence or those that may be foreign state-sponsored.

While searching the Libraries' news aggregators or academic databases, consider using terms and phrases related to current trends and initiatives in AI such as:

AI deepfake threats	cyber resilience	national security	supply chain security
AI-driven threat (or defense)	digital identity imperative	OT security	synthetic identity threats
cloud security	IoT security	quantum computing threats	workforce development
CaaS (Cybersecurity-as-a-Service)	machine identity crisis	state-sponsored attacks	zero trust architecture

(trends and initiatives terms last updated September 2025)

CyberSecurity in United States Legislation
The link is a predetermined search for "Cybersecurity" on Congress.gov. It should provide you with the most current results where the term appears in the "Titles" of a bill or relevant law and will show "any legislative action," (such as bills or resolutions introduced, sent to committee, enacted into law, etc.) from 1973-2026.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework and latest news
NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework helps businesses of all sizes better understand, manage, and reduce their cybersecurity risk and protect their networks and data.
World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025
This report analyzes the rising complexities of the cybersecurity landscape, driven by factors like geopolitical tensions, emerging technologies, intricate supply chains, and regulatory pressures...

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It highlights the growing cyber inequity resulting from a widening skills gap and calls for improved global cyber defenses, greater collaboration, and a security-first mindset to build resilience against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and ensure the stability of the digital economy.

Is this a scholarly source? No.
The WEF is a non-profit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, that operates as an international organization for public-private cooperation. For academic research, the WEF is best used as a secondary source for high-level overviews and context, not as a primary source of data or direct academic evidence.
Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community / Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) 2025
The ATA is the Intelligence Community's official, coordinated evaluation of threats to U.S. national security, citizens, and interests worldwide.

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It provides an unclassified summary of these threats, which can include cyber and technological threats, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, crime, and economic issues.

Who produces it? The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) oversees and directs the IC and serves as the principal advisor to the President and National Security Council. The Intelligence Community (IC), which consists of 18 different organizations, including intelligence components of military services and civilian agencies like the CIA.

Government Policy related to Malign Foreign Influence

Cyber & Computer Resources

FACCTS (Faulkner's Advisory on Computer & Communications Technologies)
Contains reports, vendor profiles, and product solutions on computer systems, software, networking, and telecom technologies.
BCC Research
Market research reports that includes major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations.

Business Discipline-Focused Resources

ABI/INFORM Complete
Database includes articles from business periodicals, news sources, and scholarly research, covering a wide-range of business topics.
Business Source Ultimate
Full text articles and abstracts from peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, conference proceedings, and news organizations on a wide-range of business topics. Includes articles from the Harvard Business Review and MIT's Sloan Management Review. Also contains company profiles, industry profiles, SWOT analyses, Datamonitor reports, and country reports.

IT/Computer Science Discipline-Focused Resources

IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology, formerly IEE) publications.
ACM Digital Library
Full text of every article ever published by ACM.
Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate
Providing content from leading trade and industrial journals, professional and technical society journals, specialized subject periodicals, buyers guides, directories, conference proceedings and more, Applied Science & Technology Source focuses on traditional engineering challenges & research, as well as research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.
Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerX aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
TechRepublic
TechRepublic's Resource Library is the web's largest directory of free vendor-supplied technical content.
Bitpipe
Bitpipe.com is the enterprise IT professional's guide to information technology resources including white papers, webcasts and product information. Free access to resources, but users may need to submit contact information before accessing.

GlobalComms Database (TeleGeography)
GlobalComms is TeleGeography's regularly updated online encyclopedia of wireline and wireless telecommunications competition. No other telecom market research tool rivals its geographic scope and depth of coverage.

Encyclopedia of Information Systems by Hossein Bidgoli (Editor-In-Chief)
Call Number: T58.5 .E535 2003

Publication Date: 2002-07-29

Available online and in West Campus Library and Evans or Annex, The Encyclopedia of Information Systems provides information on computers and information systems, including articles, figures, and tables.
Encyclopedia of software engineering
Publication Date: 2002

Available online, this work explores the issues and principles of software engineering, including related areas.
Wiley encyclopedia of telecommunications
Publication Date: 2003

Online encyclopedia dedicated to telecommunications for electrical engineers. Topics Include: Optical communications, modulation and demodulation, coding and decoding, communication networks, and antennas.
Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook by Ray Horak
Publication Date: 2007-08-31

Available online, this handbook includes information on origins, evolution and meaningful contemporary applications.