CYBERSECURITY – A NEW DIMENSION OF NATIONAL SECURITY?
CYBERSECURITY – A NEW DIMENSION OF NATIONAL SECURITY?

Author(s): Meda UDROIU
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: Cybersecurity; cyber-attacks; national security; critical infrastructure; protection cyber infrastructure
Summary/Abstract: In the last years, cybersecurity becomes a strategic concept which is included in national security strategies. Globalization and the Internet have given new incredible powers based on continuous development of network technologies for individuals, organizations and nations. For anyone - students, soldiers, spies, propagandists, hackers and terrorists - gathering information, communications, fundraising and public relations have been digitized and revolutionized. The increase dependence of critical infrastructure on IT&C components lets cyber-attacks become lethal to existing infrastructures; and many attacks are from both state and non-state actors. In the international context in which the resurgence of terrorism is closely linked to actions of Islamist extremist hostile groups in cyberspace, the cyber security issue, as a component of national security, becomes the theme and rationale for developing specific instruments of fundamental and highly applied research.

• Details
• Contents