Central Asian cyber-security policy environment

Abstract

In the century of the widespread use of high technologies and the Internet, cybercrime is one of the major threats to international peace and security. All groups ranging from individuals, businesses to governments are exposed to cyberattacks. Large cyberattacks in the region have mostly criminal nature desiring to have access to financial and industrial data, to realize financial operations, to use of the information and material contained in web sites, data-bases of government agencies. As a result of analysis of cyberattacks, we have an opportunity to identify weaknesses, which contributes to the subsequent improvement of system services. It can be also noted that countries of these regions create institutions to combat cybercrime at the state level and improve their regulatory instruments. At the same time, there is a process of collaboration with using of their resources and efforts to prevent internal and external threats in cyberspace by taking into account the peculiarities and opportunities of each country.