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Abstract. Cyber security and computer security are no longer just some concepts or exotic ideas about new types of warriors in the cyber space, aggressors and defenders, but also a question like "to be or not to be". Faster development of modern information and communication technologies - prerequisite of building an information society - had a significant influence on all social environments, marking true mutations in daily operating philosophy of the economics, politics and the culture. Cyber security incidents and major cyber attacks that some states and international organizations have experienced in recent years have prompted the Romanian state to assume the coordinator role of activities for cyber security, at the national level.
Keywords: cyber, policies, strategies, security, war
Motto: "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near".
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Cyber space
The latest mankind developments have marked nonchalantly, fears and almost unconscious into the realm of a new world, a world of mystery and endless temptations, full of uncertainties, risks and threats unimagined: the cyber space. This leap in time is not only about the existence of hardware and software, but outlines a new dimension of human existence in which online existence, instant communication at any distance and the ability to know anything at any time is something common. To understand the dynamics of cyber space we must remember that it took the radio 35 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 15, while the Internet has reached the same number of users in just 5 years. Today, over 2 billion people are connected and dependent on the Internet. Meanwhile, beyond the important benefits, cyber space has proven to be a generator of cyber conflict and cyber crime. A world where grandchildren can teach grandparents how to survive, in which students can tell teachers what they do not know, where adolescents deprived of any political, military or technical culture can break Pentagon codes, can block air traffic or disrupt electricity supply, affecting millions of people.
Thus,...