INFORMATION SECURITY AS A SYSTEM-FORMING ELEMENT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY ENSUREMENT MODEL OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the information security of Ukraine. The author's vision of ways to improve the administrative and legal foundations of information security as a system-forming element of the national security model of Ukraine is formulated. Based on the results of the research, the paper provides a theoretical generalization and a new solution to the scientific problem, as a result of which the following most important results were obtained. The author's definition of the concept of "violation of the definitions of national security" is formulated as an act intentionally committed with the aim of grossly violating the set of definitions of information security, state information security and state policy of the state; "public danger of violating the definitions of the national security of Ukraine", as a set of actions intentionally committed with the aim of grossly disrupting the systemic activity of individuals and/or legal entities and their social relations that protect the vital interests of a person and citizen, society, timely detection, prevention and neutralization real and potential threats to national interests.

The ordinal ranking of the information security system of the service-combat activity processes of the security and defense sector in general and the NSU in particular, which includes management and executive elements, has been improved. Control elements include: the legal element, which includes legislative, regulatory and scientific bases -  is a legal regulator of relations that arise at the operational and tactical levels of management, taking into account critical information; organizational element, which includes organizational and technical measures and methods, as well as regime measures and methods; affects the information security policy and ensures the activity of competent state authorities in general and NSU in particular; the economic element includes the sources of financing security measures. The executive elements include the technical element, which includes the application of engineering and technical measures that make information inaccessible for illegal actions.

In order to improve the norms of the current criminal legislation, the following changes and additions are reasonably proposed: to supplement Chapter 20 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with Article 436-1. Violation of the definitions of the national security of Ukraine, which provides for 4 parts with a defined level of criminal liability.

The author's position on the modified method of analysis and assessment of the level of risk situations in the processes of information security of the security and defense sector is given, and attention is also focused on problematic issues that arise at the current stage of the state's development.