International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation What is special about this project is that local launch cyber-attacks against another state. This police from specialized units are the ones fact is based on the international legal delivering this program. This helps strengthen assistance that a number of countries seek from and enhance communication among the them. The same ofce reports that Kosovo students, educators and local law enforcement. Police cooperates with all regional countries It is worth mentioning that this program was excluding the Republic of Serbia. This accepted very well by all the students, cooperation to a certain level includes educators and parents as it aims to increase cooperation against cyber-crimes as well. awareness of various threats through supporting However, no ofcial cybersecurity agreements security at schools. The program performance among Kosovo and other countries have been assessment will be conducted in 2016 to established yet. The current cooperation measure the success.5 agreements with regional countries are more Next, a collaborative partnership among the general in nature. Those are usually signed amid government and the private sector(business, the particular ministries or department civil society, and academia) is a must to directorates representing each country. As an improve the cyber security. A proper information intermediate solution, Kosovo could consider sharing mechanism should be in place to allow signing bilateral cyber security agreements with for the delivery of threat information to the Western Balkan countries that are willing to industry owners and operators who need it and cooperate. Besides sharing cyber threat related 77 vice versa. However, determining which companies should be authorized to accept and information among each other, the agreement should also provide exchanging of cyber share sensitive threat information is a complex expertise among the signing countries in the issue, but it is one that legislators will have to form of experience sharing, education, training overcome to successfully ght against and so on. increasing cyber threats. Lastly, even though there is some disparity Moreover, companies should also invest more among professionals about the current extent of time, energy, and money in their own systems' the cyber risk, there is no doubt that security. Running necessary tests on their cybersecurity is a growing concern amongst systems, identifying and eliminating anomalies, national, regional and international security proper hardware and software installation and ofcials. Three decades ago, few in the risk awareness and management is a must to computer industry bothered about information keep their cyber system safe and secured. security, but it has become a big business and a Finally, as cyber-crimes are transnational in major apprehension. Unless technical nature, regional and international cooperation breakthroughs should allow the creation of an among security and intelligence agencies and a integrally more secure cyber space, this worry number of military and political cooperation is likely to increase rather than weaken in the such as joint security initiatives is necessary to future. address these emerging threats. For Kosovo, Creating widespread damage or disruption this will be challenging as the country is not yet remains challenging and somewhat“out of the a member of regional or international security way” for all but the most skilled operators initiatives even though such cooperation is working under foreign governments' or terrorist considered crucial to successfully counter and organizations' sponsorships. These capacities, prevent prospective cyber-crimes. However, however, could diffuse to others in the future according to the Kosovo Police ofce of public and it is possible that a fairly unsophisticated communication, there are cases when Kosovo attack could have a huge impact caused by networks/computers are used as a source to unanticipated spillover effects.