1SECURING THE KINGDOM’S CYBERSPACE

Cybersecurity and cyber intelligence in Spain

Rubén Arcos

Introduction

Cybersecurity is an important element in Spanish National Security; Spain adopted a specific National Cybersecurity Strategy in 2013. The Spanish Security Strategy of 2011 included – for the first time – cyber threats and attacks among the main threats to national security (Cendoya, 2016) and the National Defence Directive of 2012 also anticipated the development of a National Cybersecurity Strategy.

Spain’s 2017 National Security Strategy, defined by the National Security Council, identifies cyberspace as a global common space (together with maritime, airspace, and outer space) as a particular area of vulnerability, either because of ...

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