WAR AND DEFENSE IN VIRTUAL SPACE

In the information society, information - as a weapon, target and strategic raw material is at the root of all decisions. Information warfare has become an area of exceptional research and development, for which increased attention is paid, but also the resources needed for research and implementation, due to the rapid advances in information technology in recent decades. The conflict in cyberspace or cyber-war has become a phenomenon at the confluence of several forms of confrontation between these actors, such as imagistic warfare, psychological warfare, information / counter-information warfare, cyber-terrorism, network-based warfare, electronic war, cybercrime, etc. Cyberspace has become the fifth dimension of the military confrontation so that in the information warfare, we can define, depending on the states of peace, crisis, conflict (war) or the post-conflict period, some specific phases of cyber confrontation