The impact of cyber threats in regional conflicts (selected models)

Abstract

Since the beginning of the current century, the contemporary world has witnessed a race between the various major and regional powers to exploit cyberspace and take advantage of the great advantages it provides in achieving vital strategic gains that those powers did not expect to achieve through the use of conventional military force. The issue of "cyber attacks" has become one of the most important and complex issues that concern the major technologically advanced countries before other less developed countries of the world, because of the serious effects and repercussions that threaten their national security and higher interests, and that the emergence of cyberspace as a new force in relations International and an influential actor in those relations, relying on technological progress, and as a result of the transfer of a large part of the conflicts to the field of cyberspace, and the entry of the regional community into a new phase in which countries try to enhance their ability to exercise hegemony, control and influence in the regional and international environment in which threats called cyber threats appeared, And cyber security aims to ensure the improvement of security that would defend organizations from being attacked by hackers through the Internet, and this is due to the fact that the world has become more connected by means of Internet networks to carry out public transactions and cyber security maintains them.