EXPERT COUNCIL OF INFORMATION AND CYBER SECURITY AS A DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIVE TOOL OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE INTERACTION

Abstract

The urgency of the study is due to the requirements of legislation to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of public-private partnerships in cyber security and cyber protection, the unsatisfactory state of public-private cooperation of cyber security in Ukraine, large-scale and dynamic growth of cyber threats and cyber incidents, elimination and neutralization by means of state bodies is not possible, the ineffectiveness of existing instruments of public-private interaction.              Despite the wide range of research on cyber security and cyber protection in general, as well as on public-private interaction in this area of cyber security actors, innovative approaches and tools of public-private interaction based on new conceptual frameworks, better national and international experience, and their implementation in the practice of daily activities on the basis of the Expert Council for Information and Cyber Security.    Therefore, the aim of the article is to summarize national and international experience in the application of public-private partnership of cyber security and cyber protection actors, define the role, conceptual framework and model of the Information and Cybersecurity Council as a democratic innovative instrument for public-private partnership between major cybersecurity actor. As well as Information and Cyber Security Council place in the organizational and technical model of cyber defense, the directions of further development of the Council are formulated and the main risks for its positive trend are substantiated. The article describes:  the main mechanisms of public-private interaction and partnership in areas related to cyber security; the experience of the cyber security councils of the Netherlands, Lithuania and Estonia is summarized and the possibility of its application in Ukraine is assessed; for the first time the conceptual bases and model of activity of the Council of information and cyber security are defined, containing basic principles, strategic purposes and tasks, structure, the mechanism of its formation and functioning; the peculiarities and uniqueness of the Council as a democratic innovative and promising instrument of public-private cooperation in the field of cyber security, as well as its place in the organizational and technical model of cyber defense are revealed; the directions of further development of the Council are formulated and the main risks for its positive trend are substantiated.