Cyber Crime undermines the functioning of the economic space and reduces trust in
digital services. Therefore, competent personnel and modern technical tools are needed
in order to ensure prevention, detection, and prosecution of Cyber Crime. Operational
information exchange among countries is becoming increasingly important in the fight
against Cyber Crime.
In order to prevent and deter future security threats, it is necessary to constantly
develop know-how related to Cyber Security and to invest in technological infrastructures
and solutions.
One of the main challenges is to develop a modern legal framework and to
strengthen the means of the LEA (Law Enforcement Agencies: Army, Internal
Security Forces, General Security and State Security) in order to provide a brand new,
complete, and mixed legal and technical approach, with the main goal of allowing to
clearly target penal responsibilities throughout the investigation phases, while
implementing actions and measures to counter Cyber Crimes efficiently.
This new legal framework shall include both high-level and low-level processes, the
most important of which are the application of Digital Forensics science by default and
the mandatory compliance with the “chain of custody” best practices and logical concept
within all the possible types of digital evidence. The above shall then be used in all the
different possible crime scenes and scenarios, such as Host Forensics, Mainframe
Forensics, Network Forensics, GPS Forensics, Cloud Forensics, Mobile Forensics,
Drone Forensics, Industrial Automation Forensics, Audio & Video Forensics, and IoT
Forensics. The overall goal of the technical aspects of the new legal framework is always
to preserve the digital evidence from regular and ICT based crime scenes.
At the national level, it is possible to use the capabilities and know-how of the
Banking Sector in terms of Cyber Security and Cyber Defense measures. At the
international level, it is mandatory to strengthen Lebanon’s relations with trusted partners
and develop new cooperative networks with other countries in order to improve the
Lebanese economy and share security interests. Since threats are global, the defense must
also be global, via strong cooperation with international professional bodies. No country
is able to deal with Cyber Threats on its own. International cooperation is mandatory in
accordance with Lebanese legal provisions.
The Government should be able to raise Cyber Security standards across the country
and enforce proper security measures to ensure that individuals, organizations, and
businesses adapt their behaviors to the required security patterns in order to operate
safely on the Internet.
From a technical perspective, Cyber Crime and Cyber Attacks exploit the evolution of
technology and the lack of a proper Cyber Security strategy and its factual
implementation. In particular, we can identify five main challenges that could represent a
concrete threat if not properly managed:
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