METHODOLOGY OF PROTECTING THE STATE INFORMATION RESOURCES IN INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS IN UKRAINE - Cyberwar-Netwar: Security in the Information Age - page 131

Chapter 7

METHODOLOGY OF PROTECTING THE STATE INFORMATION
RESOURCES IN INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS IN UKRAINE

Serge A. Kolobov
Institute for Information Recording, National Academy of Sciences, 2 Shpak Street, 03113 Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract : This paper on the protection of State information resources in information and telecommunication

systems is devoted to the concept of construction and maintenance of the functioning of an
infrastructure of protection of State information resources in information and telecommunication
systems. This includes the legal basis activity in the frame of State information resources protection in
information and telecommunication systems; the necessity of a State security centre existing as the main
element of infrastructure of information security in Ukraine; the concept of construction and
maintenance of the functioning of an infrastructure of protection of State information resources in
information and telecommunication systems; and the interaction of State security centre and executive
bodies in the frame of protection of State information resources in information and telecommunication
systems.

Key words: Information and telecommunication systems, State security centre, protection of State information

resources, information infrastructure

1. INTRODUCTION

The modern geopolitical situation demands essentially new approaches to the
problems of provision of national security, the analysis of the contents and evolution of
all spectrums of geopolitical factors, the most important of which becomes information.
Under the circumstances of an increase of State interdependence in the modern world,
particularly in view of the presence of global dangers and threats, national security
becomes a constituent part of general world security that should be provided with all
efforts in the preservation of peace, democracy and humanization of international
relations. Under the circumstances of global informatization of society, information
attacks can result in a change of priorities in national consciousness, morals and religion,
and also a propensity to interests imposed from other ways of life and modes of
behaviour.
Explosive and dynamic improvement of technologies of distribution of information
extremely complicates the task of maintenance of protection against information attacks
and destructive actions, which have, as an objective, the infringement of integrity,
accessibility and confidentiality of State information resources. Blocking and
infringement of integrity of State information resources damages the interests of an
individual, society and State in the information sphere and finally to the image of the
country on the international scene.
Accordingly, the information security of an individual, society and State is
characterized by the degree of security and, as consequence, by stability of the main
spheres of vital activity as in any destructive information influence. Information security
is determined by the ability of the system of protection to neutralize the above-mentioned
influences.