Can quality cybersecurity be a prevention of war conflicts…? (CZ)

Aleš Špidla The Statutory Director Information Competence Development Center /CEVRO College

Let’s try to think about the parallel between cybersecurity, i.e. its level, and civil defense as a preventive measure against war conflict.

The preparedness of the population against cyber attacks, the involvement of their domestic technologies in harmful activities, the resistance to receiving and spreading disinformation, can play a key role. In my youth, the civilian population was regularly prepared for war conflict. Shouldn’t we implement similar preparation in cyberspace? Well-prepared and correctly responding citizens reduce the aggressor’s appetite for attack. Or not … ?