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Fall 2019, No. 2, Vol. 1 / Romanian Cyber Security Journal


Crisis Management for Cyber Issues: Going it Alone or in a Coalition?

Viorel BARBU

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Abstract:

Cyber attacks are executed by organized crime groups, sometimes on the orders of state structures, on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures of strategic interest belonging to public institutions or to various companies. With this in mind, governments must adapt their critical infrastructures, both civilian and military, to specific risks and threats, so that they may avoid strategic surprises in the cyber environment. By accessing pre-existing models for protection, as well as specific know-how and best practices in the field, states may allocate scarce resources towards acquisitions and training, rather than redeveloping what others have already mastered. This article argues that a purely National approach to critical ICT infrastructure protection is lacking, since globalization manifests as interconnections in all fields, partly mediated by the cyber environment. Therefore, crisis management in the cyber domain must consider the interconnections of National systems to those of the alliances to which the nation belongs. A medium sized state like Romania, with the current geopolitical situation and a challenging security environment featuring implicit risks to physical and virtual borders, finds it much more difficult to generate and maintain its own cyber monitoring, prevention and protection systems. In this regard, it becomes easier and more financially convenient for government institutions to adhere to the doctrines, organization, training, technical endowment and interoperability capacity of its particular alliance. In the medium and long term, offset procedures are also a more profitable path to development of security capabilities that also serve to reinforce ties with and diminish distances from highly developed states.

Keywords:
critical infrastructures (CI), critical infrastructures protection (CIP), coalition, critical informational infrastructures protection (CIIP), risks and threats, critical informational infrastructures (CII), Cyber issues

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CITE THIS PAPER AS:
Viorel BARBU, "Crisis Management for Cyber Issues: Going it Alone or in a Coalition?", Romanian Cyber Security Journal, ISSN 2668-6430, vol. 1(2), pp. 47-57, 2019.