Explaining the role of national information network in managing the opportunities and threats of cyberspace in the country

The National Information Network is designed to reduce the dependency on the global Internet network and provide convenient, secure, and inexpensive services in cyberspace. This network has many opportunities, including quick provide content and information and knowledge, facilitate electronic services, reduce costs, increase administrative health, create and use search engine, social networks, national cloud computing, and more. The creation and promotion of a national information network will result in information security, users security, privacy and disconnection of other countries. But besides those opportunities, this network has numerous threats so that, if not addressed, will endanger the security of information and users, will lead to cost wasting and will undermine national security. Cyberspace security in order to protect cyber properties and to safeguarde national interests in line with national security is one of the major concerns of the governance. this will be achieved through the opportunities and cyberspace threats management by means of the National Information Network. This paper in terms of purpose is Practical and in terms of nature and data collection method is descriptive. In this research, the library method was used to data collection and then categorized them.in order to evaluation a researcher-made questionnaire, sample volume 96 calculated via Cochran's formula was used. The Validity and Reliability is checked using the Lisrel and SPSS softwares and the results indicate that the average of cyberspace opportunities with 45/88 factor load values and cyberspace threats with 89/87 factor load values are managable through the National Information Network.Finally, practical suggestions are presented at the end.