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Received: 2023-09-08  |  Accepted: 2023-12-07  |  Published: 2023-12-30

Title

Hybrid threats and their impact on the performance of the business environment


Abstract

The paper aims to assess the impact of hybrid threats on the performance of the business environment of the European Union countries. Hybrid threats were represented by six threats and their consequences, namely unavailability of ICT services due to hardware or software failure, unavailability of ICT services, unavailability of ICT services due to external attack, destruction or corruption of data due to malware infection or unauthorised intrusion, disclosure of confidential data due to intrusion, pharming, phishing attack or deliberate action of own employees, disclosure of confidential data due to negligent action of own employees. The performance of the business environment was assessed through the Country Competitiveness Index. The results showed that our selected threats and their consequences had a statistically significant impact on the performance of the business environment. We observed an adverse effect for unavailability of ICT services due to hardware or software failure, destruction, or corruption of data due to mal-ware infection or unauthorised intrusion, and disclosure of confidential data due to intrusion, pharming, phishing attack, or deliberate actions of own employees. Positive impacts on business environment performance were observed for unavailability of ICT services (insider attack), unavailability of ICT services due to external attacks and disclosure of confidential data due to negligent actions of own employees.


Keywords

business environment, cyber-attacks, cybersecurity, performance


JEL classifications

H55 , O35 , Z13


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1153


DOI


Pages

466-479


Funding

The paper is part of the outputs of the project Research of educational concepts in the field of hybrid threats in selected EU countries with the subsequent development of the concept of education for the Slovak Republic project code in ITMS 2014+: 314011CDW7

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Authors

Barkóciová, Miroslava
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://euba.sk
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Mihalčová, Bohuslava
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://euba.sk
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Černák, Filip
University of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia http://www.unipo.sk
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Šišulák, Stanislav
Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://www.akademiapz.sk
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

11


Number

2


Issue date

December 2023


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

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