CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO CYBERSPACE IN NATO, EU AND ROMANIA.

Concomitantly with the expansion of the use of information and communication technologies in all areas of social life, including military, organizations and states across Europe have noted the need to raise awareness of cyberspace risks and to act in order to prevent and combat them. For example, on the one hand, NATO - a political-military organization - has included cyberspace among its operational areas, considering it a space of battle, besides the three already traditional - air, land and naval. On the other hand, the European Union - a political and economic organization - is more concerned with cyber security and cybercrime, being aware that networking is essential to maintaining the online economy and ensuring the prosperity of its states and citizens. Also, at the level of Romania, a series of initiatives have been launched that target the so sensitive digital space. In the present paper, without pretending to have an exhaustive approach, we wish to present the current conceptual framework of cyber security at the Euro-Atlantic, European and national levels and, very briefly, some converging initiatives in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]