Cyber space is limited by the use of electronics and of the electronic spectrum to create, store, modify, exchange, and use data by mutually dependent and interconnected networks. Cyber security is a system tasked to provide the information environments of the state’s socioeconomic structures with secure, protected and adequately open cyberspace, i.e. to guarantee security in the electronic information, communication and control systems located in this environment, the security of the data stored, processed and transmitted in the systems and of the services provided by these systems. The joint task of cyber and information security is to provide, in collaboration, for information safety, availability of systems and services, as well for the safety of the data transmitted by, processed by and/or stored in these systems in a specific socio-economic environment. 2.3 Current Situation in the Slovak Republic The field of cyber security in the Slovak Republic has not been integrally and consistently regulated at a national strategic level. Some attention was paid to cyber security in the document “National Information Security Strategy of the Slovak Republic”12 (hereinafter referred to as the “Strategy”) and the subsequent “Action Plan for 2009 to 2013 for the National Information Security Strategy of the Slovak Republic”13. An overview of documents approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic in relation to the implementation of this Strategy as well as of other strategic and/or conceptual documents partially related to the area of protection of cyber space and/or cyber security in provided in Annex no. 2 to this Concept. The Slovak Republic has adopted several regulations regulating the security of information and communication systems and information processed and/or transmitted thereby14. The “Reports on the Performance of Tasks of the National Information Security Strategy of the Slovak Republic and Tasks of the Action Plan for 2008 to 2013”15 show that among the tasks of a non-legislative nature, positive results have been achieved in the area of information security mainly in the building of skills, education, prevention and readiness to managing computer security incidents, in the removal of the consequences thereof and the subsequent restoration of information systems in the framework of central state administration. The training of state administration specialists is carried out mostly at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic. Increasing awareness and education in the area of cyber and/or information security is not generally included in the educational system of the Slovak Republic (primary and secondary schools and universities) nor in the system of forming social awareness. Education is not dealt with at the level of specialized majors but mostly by special courses at selected educational institutions. Differing levels of capacities and preparedness for cyber risks still exist. What is absent is an Centre of Excellence that would focus on questions related to cyber security. The collaboration of the public sector with the private sector, academic institutions and civil society has not developed in the necessary scope and a framework of systematic, coordinated and efficient collaboration, mostly at a strategic level, is lacking. 12 The Government of the Slovak Republic approved the material (mat. no. ÚV-18175/2008) on 27 August 2008 by its Resolution no. 570/2008. 13 The Government of the Slovak Republic approved the material (mat. no. ÚV-30315/2009) on 19 January 2010 by its Resolution no. 46/2010. 14 E.g. Act no. 45/2011 Coll. on Critical Infrastructure defining the organization and powers of state administration bodies in the area of critical infrastructure, Act no. 351/2011 Coll. on Electronic Communications as amended. 8 15 http://www..informatizacia.sk/narodna-strategia-pre-ib/6783s.