THE CONCEPT OF ENSURING INFORMATION SECURITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF EMERGENCIES

Abstract

Information security in the system of public administration is a component of the national security of Ukraine, which provides protection of the public administration system from information and communication threats and challenges. The author considers information as a basis for safe and rational development of the modern information society. At the same time, information can serve as a weapon that affects the human worldview, population, forms a negative attitude to certain phenomena, to the state and society as a whole, distorts facts and events that affect the quality and effectiveness of modern reforms in society and more. The systemic nature of information security allows us to define its provision as a complex activity that makes special demands on its structural characteristics. Research have not developed a generally accepted mechanism for structuring information security. One of the priorities of Ukraine's security policy should be to increase the security and resilience of civil protection in relation to the full range of threats and risks, as critical infrastructure provides vital services and functions for  the population, society and state, without which their safe existence and well-being are impossible, as well as the appropriate level of national security. The analysis of the state of legal support of technical protection of information and information security of Ukraine in emergencies allows us to conclude that the choice of objects of legal regulation in the sphere of combating threats to national security in the information sphere, lack of coherence of legal mechanisms used, lack of efficiency, and, most often, the contradictions of the legal norms used by them. Issues of security of the information system of prevention of emergencies and their consequences, as well as the system of collection, processing, exchange and issuance of information in the sphere of protection of population and territories from emergencies of natural and man-made nature, are not legally reflected in regulations governing the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. In this regard, the paper formulates proposals for improving the current legislation in the sphere of information security in the protection of the population and territories from emergencies of natural and man-made nature.