Law enforcement agencies face important challenges since the irruption of new technologies in the world of crime, ‘thanks to these tools, criminals do not have to be at the crimescene, nor do they have to look their victims in the eyes’. The researcher Félix López Cánovas, speaker at the Seminar organised by UCAM together with the Ministry of Defence, states that ‘this forces us to constantly be up to date in order to be able to face new criminal activities arising, for example, from Virtual Reality’.  

Cybersecurity, technological crime and cyberespionage were the central themes of the first session of the Seminar: The Risks and Threats to National Security in the Spanish Security Strategy 2021, which is once again being held at the Campus de los Jerónimos. The meeting also addressed issues such as the existence of weapons of mass destruction. ‘During periods such as the Cold War, it was taboo to talk about this issue. They could not even be mentioned metaphorically. No politician would even think of verbalising such a thing. In 2017, North Korea and the US commented on those nuclear buttons they were ready to push. Today, with the Ukraine war, Putin also threatens anyone who compromises the security of Russian territory with nuclear weapons’, recalled Pablo Blesa, UCAM's Vice-Rector of International Relations and Communication.  

Today the lectures continue with the Ambassador of the European Climate Pact, María Cruz Ferreira Costa, who will speak about climate change and energy vulnerability, and Manuel Pardo Ríos, Vice-Dean of the Bachelor's Degree in Podiatry and lecturer at UCAM, who will analyse phenomena such as migratory flows, catastrophes and pandemics.