A Structuration Approach to Theorizing Cybersecurity Practice: The STARC Model

arXiv:2607.25734 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Md Aktaruzzaman, Atif Ahmad, Sean Maynard

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: 22 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Core — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adaptation — 27× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Actor — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Material-Agential Structural Properties — 7× in this paper
Multi-Level Adversarial Agency — 6× in this paper
Threat-Adaptive Structuration — 6× in this paper
Adaptability — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adversarial Context — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Structuration Theory Adaptation for Resilient Cybersecurity — 3× in this paper
Affordance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Structural Constraints — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adaptive Structuration Theory — 1× in this paper
Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Diagnostic Tools — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Risk Management in Technology — 1× in this paper
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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