NATO and EU Cybersecurity Environment and Standards

by Alika Guchua¹ and Thornike Zedelashvili^2
1 Caucasus International University (Tbilisi, Georgia)
² Caucasus International University (Tbilisi, Georgia)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/up/9/1
Received: 19 September 2021 / Accepted: 22 October 2021 / Published: 1 December 2021

The states face many dangers in modern international politics. The size of threats and risks is growing, which requires great effort and struggle from states to ensure security. One of the major challenges in the 21^st century is the threats posed by cyberspace, such as cybercrime, cyber terrorism, and so on. The role of states and international or regional organizations should be in ensuring a safe environment, in improving protective mechanisms, as well as in improving the economic and environmental situation through the use of technological advances, and in caring for public order and other welfare, for which the developed countries of the world are working today, also by joint efforts of the EU and NATO. However, more effort and involvement are needed. The research raises important questions: What are the consequences for the world? Where are we, and where are we going? A pandemic, a crisis, a lot of dangers in both the real and the irreal world, that is, in cyberspace, which does not even lag behind the real one. The paper discusses the standards and mechanisms of how governmental institutions and international or local organizations should operate to minimize the damage from cyber-attacks. The paper also discusses the introduction of cyber threats and what solutions can be found to neutralize and mitigate the threats. It is impossible to localize cyber threats at this stage fully, and why it is impossible, this issue is also discussed in the paper. NATO and EU cyber security policies and existing standards are also discussed. We also talk about the cyber security environment and policy of Ukraine and Georgia.

Keywords: Cybersecurity, EU, NATO, Challenges, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia

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