THE INFORMATION SECURITY ENVIRONMENT:
CYBER-ATTACK AS THE MODERN 21ST CENTURY THREAT Cover Image

MEDIUL DE SECURITATE INFORMAŢIONAL. ATACUL CIBERNETIC – AMENINŢAREA MODERNĂ A SECOLULUI XXI
THE INFORMATION SECURITY ENVIRONMENT: CYBER-ATTACK AS THE MODERN 21ST CENTURY THREAT

Author(s): Raisa Gabriela Zamfirescu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: National Institute for Intelligence Studies
Keywords: security, intelligence; Digital Age; hybrid warfare;cyber-attack;

Summary/Abstract: along a technological evolution unheard of but together with the positiveaspects the negative ones have appeared, the latter being defined by specialists aspervert aspects. Certainly one of the greatest challenges is the one in computing where,according to Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, starting of 2010, in 48 hours there is producedas many information as before 2010, but it is not knowledge what it is being produced,most of the registered data being noise, reason for which, generally speaking,information services and security structures must reevaluate the paradigm, theoperating mode, the working methodologies and instruments. This evolution had and itstill has a powerful contribution in transforming and modernizing the risks and threatsto the security of a state, asymmetry being presently a success feature for the malwareattacks of the new century; most times it is this feature that succeeds in ensuring thenecessary strategic advantage.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 63-76
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian
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