The targets of hostile actions towards specific society may be: knowledge, national identity, social and political structure, critical infrastructure and defense and security sector, etc. and it is expected that the range of targets will expand in the future and that the number of possible targets is open and infinite, that is, it is incomprehensibly broad. In this sense, the analysis will be limited to only a few targets whose mutual relations will be simulated in the context of content and scope. Their relation to the politicization of the intelligence system will also be examined as well as politicization itself through the available literature review Emphasis is given to the potential scenarios resulting from the hostile action, as well as to the possible moments when they could be prevented with the minimal damage to the protected society. For the purpose of this paper, in order to research potential models, decision-making system has been analysed and distinction is made between regular and irregular politicization of the process.

AbstractThe need for clarity in fundamental concepts  within the discipline is constant. Still there is much confusion about these concepts. There are tendencies to take distinction between data and information as natural and obvious but in concrete research we can easily understand that the issue is far from resolved. The relationship between data and information and their differences are explored in this article. The concept of DIKW (Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom) hierarchy is analyzed empirically and theoretically. This paper will present an analysis of 6 sentences from media articles. The sentences will be analyzed as information and as data with the aim of discerning the difference that exists when the same set of words is considered information and is thus composed of data (analysis 1) and when it is considered a piece of data in relation to the article in which it is found (analysis 2). The paper thus attempts to show empirically what the real differences between the two entities are and in what relationship they exist. The obtained results are limited to the set research framework, however, they may serve as the initial setting for testing in a different framework as well.