In this episode, Greta Nasi and Colin MacArthur discuss the concept of national security and the approaches to achieving it in a hyper-connected world. They also discuss the meaning of cyberwar in different contexts, including Latin America and the Global South with their guests Andrea Calderaro, University of Cardiff and Robert Schuman Center, EUI; Fabiana Sofia Perera, William J Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University; Elisa Pisanelli, PhD Candidate at the European University Institute and Center on Cybersecurity and Digitalization, ISPI and Raffaele Volpi, Strategic Advisor and geopolitical Analysis, former Chairman of the Italian Parliamentary Commission for Security.