Cybersecurity And Cybercrime: Challenges Of An Invisible Space

The cyberspace is the new environment where a significant part of our social interconnections take place. To say that the future belongs to virtual space it's not a figure of speech at all. Consequently, the modern security concept includes a cybersecurity dimension. The cyberspace comes into our lives with a lot of advantages, but also with numerous vulnerabilities. The policy makers and the legislative systems around the world reacted with a sufficient delay to the rapid developments in the cyberspace, and still the reality online is one step ahead of the society ’s reaction. Similarly, to the relationships performed in the physical space, the relationships taking place in the cyberspace have to be organized through legal rules with the goal of ensuring a safe juridical life for each participant to this virtual legal circuit. The transition from traditional laws to ones addressed to virtual space is challenging for all the actors involved in this process, from international community, states, experts, legislators, administrative authorities and judicial institutions to corporations and individuals. The main threat is represented by cybercrimes. The cybersecurity and the law behind it, together with all the regulations having as goal to prohibit and sanction the criminal behaviour committed in the cyberspace are strongly interrelated. The aim of our study is to analyse the legal regime of preventing and combating cybercrime and the legal aspects of cybersecurity, to examine the level of protection ensured through current laws and to propose improvements to the existing legislative framework.