Strengthening the Security Culture in Romania

• Published in: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review (Online) 2023-06 (1(29)/ 2023), p.75-92
• Main Authors: Bianca-Elena STAN (PREDOANĂ), Ana-Rodica STĂICULESCU, Marius-Răzvan PREDOANĂ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: defence; risks; security culture; strategy; training
• ISSN: 2393-1450; 2783-9826

The current security context requires proper and consolidated solutions in order to lower the number of risks posed by the ongoing national security threats. Strengthening the security culture is one of these solutions, as it can ensure the engendering of desirable attitudes towards existing security risks. Shortly, security culture is a combination of knowledge and attitudes toward the security issues of the state. In Romania, since 2010, the consolidation of security culture is an assumed objective within the National Defence Strategies. Over time, different Romanian institutions have taken several steps to achieve this goal, but a main actor is represented by the Romanian Intelligence Service, as it took multiple measures in order to have a better-informed population and better trained authorities. In addition, the National Cyber Security Directorate has been actively involved in strengthening the cybersecurity culture, an extremely important branch of the security culture. Taking into consideration that every human activity is more and more connected to the cyber space, people have to face many risks coming from this direction. In this article you will find information about some measures taken in Romania in order to strengthen the security culture. The main objective of this article is to emphasize the importance of creating a common security culture, but also to spot the limits of such a process. For accomplishing this objective, it was used “literature review” as a research method.