O uso da guerra cibernética em conflitos: as infraestruturas críticas como alvo

Abstract

Critical infrastructures have become an integral part of cyberspace and have played a vital role in supporting many daily activities. Reliability, high performance, continuous performance, security, maintenance and protection of such critical infrastructures are national priorities for many countries around the world. It turns out that cyberwar has imposed a new reality for military theaters of operations. Targets are not only military personnel and installations. Nowadays, banks, nuclear companies, telephone and communications companies, transportation and logistics systems, among others, are potential targets, once a continued unavailability of such services would take a nation to collapse. Brazil, aiming to consolidate its importance in the international scenario, defined the key vital sectors that should be prioritized: energy, transportation, water, finance and communications. Ensuring the protection and full functioning of these strategic assets has become vital to national security. This work aims at a nalyzing the current situation of the cyber sector in Brazil, identifying relevant aspects related to existing threats in the cyberspace, and proposes the formulation of specific laws for the cyber sector, which would force a better communication and collaboration between Critical Infrastructures controllers and government, thereby enabling interoperability in a whole effort towards the security of national critical infrastructures