The Challenges of Law Enforcement Agencies in the 21st Century

Cybersecurity in the 21st Century

Abstract

The law enforcement agencies had to face several challenges in the beginning of the 21^st century. Some of these are new, sweeping across the world, fundamentally changing everyone’s life, like the Covid-19 pandemic. There is another challenge, the migration, which is still relevant today. However, there is another, which is not as old as migration, but has appeared several years ago. This is cybersecurity. In the workshop, called „The Challenges of Law Enforcement Agencies in the 21^st Century” the invited speakers held several presentations about these issues and other challenges. This article contains the material of the presentation on the challenges of cybersecurity. It emphasizes the importance of cybersecurity and some important trends through examples that characterise it today. The article addresses the impact of Covid-19, connected networks, cloud computing, growing amount of data, artificial intelligence and machine learning on cybersecurity.