National strategic framework for cyberspace security data (with the aim, for example, to demand ransoms or commit other kinds of violations), recycling of illicit capitals, gambling and illegal bets. By the same token, it is more and more evident the involvement of criminal organizations in cyber espionage activities, often on behalf of legitimate companies, with the objective of stealing industrial patent, company strategies, market researches, analysis and description of productive processes, etc. The role of the State Even though the digital arena is a reality that transcends, from many points of view, national borders, states are certainly among the main stakeholders of cyberspace, because they have the ultimate responsibility for the protection of ICT infrastructures on their own territory, even if they are owned and operated mostly by the private sector. States have the human and financial resources as well as the capability to organize and manage, overtime, complex 14