Assessing Cyberspace Security and Vulnerabilities: The Critical Impact on Civil Liberties and Privacy Is there a trade-off between civil liberties and national security Is public opinion aware of "national security" and "law enforcement" crossing paths to fight cyberthreats? Will personal privacy be the “first casualty” of the next cyberwar?

The Current Situation democratic governments believe that there is an inevitable trade-off between civil liberties and security and the latter should prevail to win the "war on terror" considerable increase of government surveillance US example with the DHS and Convention on Cybercrime

Focus of this Research the blurring of areas of competence that were, traditionally, divided between defense (strictly competence of the military) and law enforcement (competence of police officers) trade-off between security and civil liberties

Short and Long Term Goals Engage practitioners, government officials, press and the media work closely with computer scientists contribute to create legislative frameworks provide successful templates models citizens protection as an education policy

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. Benjamin Franklin