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The transition towards a low-carbon economy over the next few decades poses a global challenge, including for Serbia. In regions whose economic development relies on mining (exploitation of non-renewable sources of energy and raw materials), there is a crucial need for investments in new sources of clean energy, the development of new industries, and the creation of new green jobs. Anticipating these trends and their impact on existing mine workers is essential for effectively managing the energy transition and creating a green economy where they won't be left behind. The authors of this paper focus on analyzing the attitudes of mine workers in Serbia regarding this issue and their readiness to embrace changes, aiming to contribute to the promotion of the need for an accelerated and fair energy transition. To ensure the relevance of the conclusions, field research was conducted during November and December 2023, coupled with an analysis of available literature and officially accessible public documents related to this field. Efficient management of the energy transition requires aligning strategies for reindustrialization, innovation, the adoption of clean technologies, and investments in green infrastructure. Simultaneously, measures ensuring a smooth transition are necessary, including social protection, training for acquiring new knowledge and skills, labor market policies, as well as community development and renewal.

The deep and widespread global crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has directly or indirectly generated numerous and different phenomena and processes that have completely changed the perception and way of life and work and thus established a new context, radically changing the security configuration and landscape. At the same time, the current crisis has become the main accelerator of several important trends and transformations in the field of cybersecurity: first initiations, then support for the processes of privatization, militarization, and securitization of this area. In the strategic environment, two completely different, by their effects and mode of action, recent processes coincided, resulting in a fundamental asymmetry: increasing intensity, dynamics, and frequency of cyberattacks, while drastically reducing the operational capabilities of the state and other actors on the plan of their prevention and suppression. The main goal of the research is, first, to consider and then determine the global context that produces different and very complex interrelationships, interactions, conditionality between the spread of a pandemic on the one hand, and the expansion of hybrid threats, especially cybercrime, on the other forms, modalities, narratives, and goals. Due to the complexity, multidimensionality, and relevance of the problem-subject set, standard methodological tools were applied during the research, based on DESK methods. In the concluding section, the conversational meaning and hybrid nature of cyber threats emphasize the importance and need to innovate existing public policies and security agendas in creating a combined hybrid response with pronounced synergistic effects.

Digital transformation of business and cyber security have recently caused great interest, not only in business and political circles, but also among scientists and researchers. In recent years digital technology has dramatically changed, redesigned and accelerated the way of doing business, education, entertainment, public sector, and other segments of society. Configuration and scope of changes, along with inevitable disruption, take place at three levels: individual, organizational and social level. With its direct impact on the consciousness, ideas, behavior and change of paradigm, focus and the manner of business, digital transformation has undoubtedly led to the creation and expansion of digital economy, as a brand new and unknown model of business. With the development of new business models and modes of business, disruptive technologies have become a great challenge and a kind of threat to the digital business model itself in the complex global environment. This is due to the unlimited possibilities of abuse of technologies and their weaknesses. More precisely, there is an obvious imbalance between the very rapid development of technological innovations and their implementation, on the one hand, and accompanying protection and security challenges, on the other.