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The analysis of the present condition of security of State information resources has
shown the urgent necessity of the amplification of efficiency of actions concerning
maintenance of their protection. For this purpose the uniform infrastructure of protection
of State information resources has been created in Ukraine. The basic idea consists of the
necessity for the construction of a rigid hierarchical infrastructure, the elements of which
would carry out the functions of coordination, methodical and practical help to
proprietors of information and telecommunication systems concerned with counteraction
of threats and illegal actions which are directed to infringement of integrity, accessibility
and confidentiality of State information resources.
The State Centre of Information and Telecommunication Systems Security is its basic
element. It performs functions of coordination of work of the Centre of Security in the
Ukrainian segment of the Internet network, the Centre of Anti-Virus Protection of
Information and other elements. It also provides the precise hierarchy of management
and uniform technological principles of its creation and functioning.
The creation of the State Centre of Information and Telecommunication Systems
Security (SCS) and other elements of the infrastructure which can also be created on a
commercial basis, takes into account and completely corresponds to international
experience in the sphere of protection of information resources. In highly developed
countries, which have widely ramified networks of data transmission and the opportunity
of unlimited and unimpeded access to global networks, in particular the Internet, the
similar function is carried out by the CSIRT - Computer Security Incident Response
Teams - a structure of fast reaction to incidents which threaten security of information
resources.
Additionally, they carry out an analysis and take part in the liquidation of
consequences of non-authorized actions which have broken the uninterrupted functioning
of information and telecommunication systems, and also fulfil the spreading of
information concerning real and possible threats and the tools and means of maintenance
of information security.
They also provide managers of security of networks with the corresponding
methodology and provide their training and improvement of professional skills.
The SCS carries out coordination, organizational, technological and analytical
functions in the maintenance of protection of State information resources in information
and telecommunication systems. It has a corresponding technological base for gathering
and analysis of data; forecasting of possible ways of infringement of integrity,
accessibility and confidentiality of information; formation of recommendations
concerning improvement of a policy of security in information and telecommunication
systems of State bodies; the introduction of the newest systems of anti-virus protection;
and the safe use of resources of the Internet network.
In particular at any given stage, the SCS undertakes the following basic actions:
x Coordination of activity of the other elements of security of State information
resources in information and telecommunication systems of Ukraine
x Realization of gathering, analysis and operative reaction to any displays of non-
authorized actions directed at infringement of integrity, accessibility and
confidentiality of information resources of bodies of the government in
information and telecommunication networks
x Coordination of activity of managers of security of information and
telecommunication systems of bodies of the government and management and
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