As required by General Assembly resolution 65/230, this Study has been prepared with a view to ‘examining options to strengthen existing and to propose new national and international legal or other responses to cybercrime.’ The mandate comes within the context of a number of other mandates and activities related to cybercrime and cybersecurity within the United Nations system. In this respect, the focus of the Study is limited to the crime prevention and criminal justice aspects of preventing and combating cybercrime.