Op-Ed

The Discovery of the New World: Cyber Opportunities and Threats

Original title: Yeni Dünya’nın Keşfi: Siber Fırsatlar ve Tehditler

The cyber world, with its opportunities and threats, forces traditional approaches to change. While it has an impact on socio-economic and political structures, it also contains the potential to transform opportunities into threats with cybercrimes, attacks and intelligence aspects. In the 1990s, we encountered a wave of change that began to be felt more and more: the “Information Revolution”. The basic spirit of this revolution was a radical change in the tools that provided access to information. How? Since the invention of the printing press - for over 500 years - the circulation of information had been carried out on paper. But now we have screens rather than paper. First, our capacity to store information developed, then processing and instantly retrieving information. An officer no longer needs to go into musty, dusty archives to find data or documents. It is extremely easy today to transfer the desired data to a digital environment, store it, classify it and recall it when necessary.

Published in
Analist, Haziran 2014, Sayı 40
pp.
30–39
Co-author
Reyhan Güner
Language
Turkish