CURRENT APPROACHES OF DIPLOMACY IN THE CYBERSPACE

Abstract

In recent years, the Internet has had a positive impact, both on individuals and on governmental activity, and so it became a free and open space enabling almost all kinds of tasks. But more and more frequently, the Internet has also been the target of many cyber attacks, generating data leaks and financial loses. The vast majority of financial and telecommunication systems have been affected by numerous such intrusions. These incidents are more and more common and they impact heavily both on governments and businesses or individual users. In time, cybernetic security has become one of the main priorities for all these above mentioned types of users. Thus, along with the technological evolution in each sector, the implementation of a series of protection measures, designed to prevent the cyber attacks that the majority of the population now faces, became indispensable.