Iraqi National Security and Cyber Threats… Cyber terrorism as a model

Abstract

The massive spread of the use of Internet networks in Iraq led to a (major revolution) that left its effects on all aspects of life, including the national security of the Iraqi state, which is now facing new challenges, represented by cyber threats. The technological development that Iraq witnessed in the field of information and communications during the second decade of the third millennium, which coincided with the weakness of securitization in the national infrastructure (security, banking, or personal), led to Iraq becoming exposed to threats in all its forms. It is noted that most Iraqi institutions contract to supply their information from satellites with a service resource located outside the Iraqi borders, which leads to the passage of that information in the servers of those countries, and its return to Iraq, and therefore this procedure constitutes a breach of the Iraqi information security.