International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation INTRODUCTION What does the term“cybersecurity” refer to? Vesna Popova: Why does cyber(in)security matters for the Western Balkan? It is commonly concluded that working online Western Balkan. The protection of critical has set up the most of individuals“ofine“. This infrastructure is another point for the cohesion is especially the case for the Western Balkan of the region as well as a key notier for the Countries(Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, protection and resilience of the society. For the Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) most of the cases, it does represent quite new that have, for example, Facebook penetration rate of around 50% each. 109 And it's not just the concept both for the institutions and academia. This paper aims to touch upon all those issues, social media- it is the banking, energy supply as a screening of the current trends, situations systems, production, trafc and almost each and challenges,and hopefully as a provocation aspect of everyday life that is somehow for increased activism by the above mentioned connected to or dependant by“cyber”. This is actors. 78 what makes cyber a fact: Cyber is real, because all the effects of its(mis)use are real. So, in that context, it is not the extended denition of cybersecurity the only thing that matters, but also the utilization of the cyberspace for “ordinary” crimes, such as for example the hate speech, an issue that can easily light up a re in a region as the Balkan is. One example is the recent incident in a soccer match played in Belgrade, provoked by the pretty extracurricular usage of a drone. Still, the idea of cyber security is a pretty new concept considered in the region as a whole. The denition of cybersecurity is broad and, when transposed into the real world, it gets different dimensions. There is a general notion of distinction between cybercrimes, cyber terrorism and recognition of the cyber both as a separate space for action and as a channel for inuencing the existing, material space within society, but however, this is far away from enough in order to be able to speak about cyber security awareness in the region of 109 Source: Internet World Stats, available at http://www.internetworldstats.com/europa2.htm#al