Cyber terrorism prevention and counteraction workshop review

A NATO Advanced Training Course (ATC ) on Cyber Terrorism Prevention and Counteraction workshop, held in Kiev on September 27-29, 2010, allowed the participants to share their experiences with experts from Ukraine, a Partnership for Peace country. The participants exchanged their ideas on the ways to clearly identify the threat posed by cyber terrorism, its political and socioeconomic roots, and ways to diminish the associated risks, to prevent cyber attacks and to mitigate their consequences. It was recognized that the gap between the two definitions is being bridged by other corpae delicti contained in the country's Criminal Code, such as extortion, sabotage, or assassination of a state official or a public figure. The need to preserve individual rights and freedoms when investigating, prosecuting, or trying to prevent cyber attacks, including those that amount to acts of cyber terrorism, was stressed throughout the event.