تهديدات الأمن الإقليمي العربي في الميدان الخامس: نحو إستراتيجية للحماية

Abstract

The world is moving towards increasing reliance on smart technologies throw adopting models of smart governments and smart cities, to get the gain of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in improving human lifestyle, and with accelerating the process of technological modernization that countries are going through, especially during the period of the spread of the Covid-19 virus, to ensure the continuation of human activity, while adhering to the instructions of quarantine and social distancing, the whole world has become more exposed to cyber threats.
With the noticeable increase in the frequency of cyber attacks, and the increasing destructive capacity that has become capable of striking nuclear reactors and satellites, as well as critical infrastructure, this means that cyber war has become more likely than before, in a way that may be more fierce than other wars, Within a few minutes, thousands of deaths may occur if a cyber attack succeeds in targeting one of the vital facilities of countries, such as aviation systems or hospitals.
Cyberspace is the main battlefield for this coming war. It is the fifth domain of the new battle after the four traditional fields - land, sea, air and outer space.
Hence the importance of this paper, which discusses threats to Arab regional security in the fifth domain, these new threats resulting from the increasing dependence on cyberspace, and seeks to provide a vision that helps decision makers in formulating a national and Arab strategy to confront the risks of cyber threats facing Arab regional cyber security.