Characteristic Features of Cyber Security A significant feature of cyber security is the fact that individual components of cyber space have different owners, administrators, operators, as well as users. Failure to adhere to minimum security rules, protection methods and minimum security measures in the area of cyber security and the lack of unification thereof increases the level of vulnerability of the operated electronic information, communication, and control systems and in case of a cyber attack, it may even cause risks for a selected part of for the whole of cyber space. Managing security incidents and events does not only depend on the capacities of the public sector but it is also significantly dependent on the constructive cooperation of actors active outside the public sector. Cyber Security as a Component of the State’s Security System Insufficient protection and defence against security incidents creates space for rendering society itself vulnerable, with consequences throughout all social and economic processes, i.e. the state’s basic security areas of operation (hereinafter referred to as the “security areas”) may be seriously endangered: • Security interests of the Slovak Republic in foreign and defence policy. • Protection of constitutionality, public order, security of citizens and the state. • Social stability of the state. • Economic stability of the state. • Protection of the environment. Cyber security is perceived as a key component of state security. The basic components forming and implementing the security system of the Slovak Republic are, according to the law 9: foreign policy, defence planning, civil emergency planning and coordination and intelligence services. Currently, a bill is being prepared that will recognise the protection of the national cyber space as another key component of the security system of the state. Globalism and the importance of the impacts of potential cyber attacks require a conceptual and coordinated control of the protection and defence of cyber space. Cyber Security and Information Security - Relations For the purposes of this Concept, the definition of the terms cyber security and information security is based mostly on EU documents10. These documents imply that these are two mutually interconnected areas of problems, i.e. the security of the cyber environment and the security of the information environment, or cyber security and information security. The information environment is one of the important real environments11 within a specific framework of the socio-economic environment. 9 7 Act no. 110/2004 Coll. on Operation of the Security Council of the Slovak Republic at Peace Times, as amended by the Act no. 319/2012 Coll. 10 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning measures to ensure a high joint level of network and information security. Joint Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union: An Open, Safe and Secure Cyberspace, JOIN(2013). 11 E.g..: social, work, legal, etc.