scholarly journals Evaluating the threat to national information security

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Yarovenko
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Threat Index ◽  
High Level ◽  
National Information

An effective strategy for managing the national information security with capabilities to resist information threats significantly impacts its further development. This study aims to assess the level of threat to the information security of countries based on the integral index. It is proposed to use five indicators characterizing individual areas of information security and 37 world development indicators, selected from the World Bank database. Correlation analysis selected 12 out of 37 development indicators relevant to security indicators for which the correlation coefficient exceeded 0.5 or –0.5. The Harrington-Mencher function is proposed to determine the information security threat index. Nonlinear normalization was carried out to bring the initial data to a comparable measurement. Canonical analysis was performed to determine the indicator weights. The data from 159 countries were taken for 2018 to assess the index. The result was presented on the map showing countries’ distribution by the information security threat index, thus forming five groups. The group with a “very well” resistance to threats includes economically developed countries with a high level of information security. The “well” group was formed by new industrial and developing countries with economic potential sufficient to prevent information threats and combat their consequences. The information security level in developing countries, where the results of overcoming information threats will affect the economic sphere, is defined as “acceptable”. Countries with a low level of development and information security formed groups designated as “bad” and “very bad”, which indicates a high level of threats to their information security. AcknowledgmentThis work is carried out with in the tax payer – funded researches: No. 0118U003574 “Cybersecurity in the banking fraud enforcement: protection of financial service consumers and the financial and economic security growth in Ukraine”.

Digitalization Security as a Marker of Modern Mechanical Engineering Technology Implementation in the Context of Ensuring Strategic Economic Security of Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Ievgeniia Mishchuk ◽  
Svitlana Rebrova ◽  
Petro Krush ◽  
Dmytro Zinchenko ◽  
Kateryna Astafieva
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Security Assessment ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Economic Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

The article demonstrates the impact of digitalization security on implementation of modernengineering technologies, substantiates their connections with provision of the strategic economic security of anenterprise, presents enhanced methods of assessing the current economic-information security of an enterprise’sinterests. The developed methods of digitalization security assessment have been tested at machine buildingenterprises of Ukraine. The security level has proved to be medium or low at most enterprises under study. Thework substantiates that absence of the systematic personnel policy aimed at personnel’s acquiring competences4.0, deficit of financing technologies 4.0 implementation, a low level of IT capital make it impossible to ensurea high level of strategic economic security at Ukraine’s machine building enterprises.

scholarly journals The Innovative Approach to Increasing Cybersecurity of Transactions Through Counteraction to Money Laundering

2019 ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhiy Lyeonov ◽  
Оlha Кuzmenko ◽  
Hanna Yarovenko ◽  
Tatiana Dotsenko
Keyword(s):  
Money Laundering ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Gravity Modelling ◽  
Minkowski Metric ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Welfare Level ◽  
High Level

A current task is to provide the economic security of any country in the context of creating effective and reliable measures of the banking cybersecurity system against money laundering. First of all, it relates to the fact that the money laundering processes and financing of terrorism negatively influence the economy of any country and reduce the economic security level. Secondly, the high level of money laundering in the country promotes the emergence of such negative processes as corruption, extortion, drug production, people smuggling, gangsterism, terrorism, which leads to an increase of the crime situation in the country and endangers the lives of the population. Thirdly, the existing cybersecurity measures of banks do not affect the security of transactions in a timely manner to identify funds obtained illegally. Therefore, exactly this aspect is required changes and modernization in order to accomplish the task. The aim of the article is to develop the innovative scientific and methodic approach to the country’s attractiveness modelling for proceeds laundering by other countries. This technique is one of the tools of the bank’s cybersecurity system for making further decisions regarding the risk of legalization. In order to solve this problem authors suggest the approach, which is based on gravity modelling. Eight factors: Gross Domestic Product per capita, Claims on the central government, Internally displaced persons, associated with conflict and violence; Automatic Exchange of Information; Corruption Perceptions Index; Global Terrorism Index; Legatum Prosperity Index; Happy Planet Index are proposed to be evaluated using the expert approach to implement the above approach. Then the integral indicator is calculated using the Minkowski metric and taking into account the factors normalization. Using the gravity model, the country’s attractiveness degree considering is defined for proceeds laundering on the part of another country. Data for 105 countries are used for calculation and results for Ukraine, Poland and Germany are represented. As a result, we can see that developed countries with high welfare level are attractive for developing countries for money laundering, countries with low welfare level, low economic development and unstable political situation are attractive for the developed countries. The proposed methodology is recommended to be introduced in the activity of banks' cybersecurity systems. It will allow identifying transactions of those countries for which the risk of legalization is high and introduce additional monitoring to regard the legitimacy of their financial sources. In addition, it is expedient to use the model in the activities of the country’s regulatory authorities, which will promote the introduction of cybersecurity standards and increase the ethics of financial relations between countries. Keywords: cybersecurity, money laundering, gravity modelling, country attractiveness, risk, expert approach, normalization, Minkowski metric.

scholarly journals Gender and feminist considerations in Artificial Intelligence from a developing-world perspective, with India as a case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANGHAMITRA CHOUDHURY ◽  
Shailendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Precarious Situation ◽  
And Robotics

<p>The relationship between women, technology manifestation, and likely prospects in the developing world is discussed in this manuscript. Using India as a case study, the paper goes on to discuss how ontology and epistemology views utilised in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and robotics will affect women's prospects in developing countries. Women in developing countries, notably in South Asia, are perceived as doing domestic work and are underrepresented in high-level professions. They are disproportionately underemployed and face prejudice in the workplace. The purpose of this study is to determine if the introduction of AI would exacerbate the already precarious situation of women in the developing world or if it would serve as a liberating force. While studies on the impact of AI on women have been undertaken in developed countries, there has been less research in developing countries. This manuscript attempts to fill that need.</p>

scholarly journals The Role of European Integration in Ensuring Economic Security

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
A. Stavytskyy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Security Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Security Index ◽  
High Level

The paper considers the issue of ensuring the level of economic security in Europe. Based on the panel gravity model, a regression was estimated for 49 European countries for 1991–2017. The investigation tested six different hypothesis about the channels of dissimilation of economic security level in Europe. The results provided an opportunity to determine the factors affecting the spread of a high level of economic security to neighbouring countries. It was stated that some factors play an important role in the process of exchanging best practices, technologies, human capital, etc. In particular, such factors can be mentioned: the economic security index of the neighbouring country, the difference in the indices of economic security between countries, the distance between countries, the existence of common borders, the country’s participation in the European Union, the introduction of the euro in the country. It was shown that European countries have not yet exhausted the potential of developing their own economic security. For example, the expansion of the European Union, of course, subject to the principles of its functioning, can increase the general security level by about 1,5 %. Also, it was stated that distances cease to play a decisive role for the spreading the technologies, goods, services. This means that taking into account the development of Europe’s transport infrastructure, it is possible to quickly disseminate the latest trends in economic security among countries. Economic growth and equalization in economic conditions offset the differences between countries. The growth of the economic security index in neighbouring countries is sufficiently significant. Thus, it is beneficial for all countries to have prosperous neighbours around them. At the same time, an increase in the economic security index is possible only with a significant increase in competition.

Multimedia Information Security and Privacy

2011 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Ming Yang ◽  
Monica Trifas ◽  
Guillermo Francia ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Yongliang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Information Hiding ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Video Encryption ◽  
High Level

Information security has traditionally been ensured with data encryption techniques. Different generic data encryption standards, such as DES, RSA, AES, have been developed. These encryption standards provide high level of security to the encrypted data. However, they are not very efficient in the encryption of multimedia contents due to the large volume of digital image/video data. In order to address this issue, different image/video encryption methodologies have been developed. These methodologies encrypt only the key parameters of image/video data instead of encrypting it as a bitstream. Joint compression-encryption is a very promising direction for image/video encryption. Nowadays, researchers start to utilize information hiding techniques to enhance the security level of data encryption methodologies. Information hiding conceals not only the content of the secret message, but also its very existence. In terms of the amount of data to be embedded, information hiding methodologies can be classified into low bitrate and high bitrate algorithms. In terms of the domain for embedding, they can be classified into spatial domain and transform domain algorithms. In this chapter, the authors have reviewed various data encryption standards, image/video encryption algorithms, and joint compression-encryption methodologies. Besides, the authors have also presented different categories of information hiding methodologies as well as data embedding strategies for digital image/video contents.

IT Implementation in a Developing Country Municipality

2010 ◽  
pp. 399-418
Author(s):  
Clive Sanford ◽  
Anol Bhattacherjee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Technological Frames ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Fishbone Diagram ◽  
High Level

This article presents an interpretive analysis of the key problems and challenges to technology implementation in developing countries, based on a three-year case analysis of an IT project in a city government in Ukraine. We employ the concept of technological frames of reference as an analytical tool for articulating the group-level structures related to the implementation context from the perspectives of key stakeholders and examine the degree of conflict between these frames using a Fishbone diagram. We report that conflict between technological frames held by key stakeholders in large-scale system implementation projects often create an unexpected, dysfunctional, and politically charged implementation environment, ultimately leading to project failures, even if the project enjoys a high level of financial and management support. This, in turn, creates unique challenges for technology implementation projects in developing countries that are often overlooked in the traditional academic and practitioner literatures based on experiences from developed countries.

Analysis of debt burden and credit of corporate sector: Estimates for Russia and cross-country cases

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Sheremeta ◽  
A. N. Mogilat
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Currency Crises ◽  
Inflation Targeting ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
High Level

The paper discusses dynamics of private sector debt-to-GDP ratio and debt service ratio (DSR). We show that the level of DSR for developing countries is less than that of DSR for developed countries, and has a more volatile dynamics. Developing countries face significant risk from external sector of the economy due to high level of their dependence on external debt - through currency revaluation, on the one hand, and reciprocal growth of interest rates, on the other hand. This is illustrated, for example, by the situation in Russia in 2014-2016. We also show that countries with monetary policy based on inflation targeting face much more downplayed response of DSR shocks on their economic activity than countries with different regimes of monetary policy. That is why currency crises in several regions including South-East Asia and Russia, have led to significant growth in DSR and forwarded shift to inflation targeting in these countries. Along with shocks of DSR related to volatility of foreign currency, we explore those related to inflation and monetary conditions, abrupt changes in economic activity, etc. The paper also focuses on factors of DSR dynamics, including interest rates, terms, volumes, foreign currency revaluation, and its decomposition on the long period of time.

scholarly journals Application of Digital Twin Technology for Modelling of Information Security Level of Industrial Plant

2021 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Natalia Mikhailovna Kuznetsova ◽  
Tatyana Vladimirovna Karlova
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Industrial Plant ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Automated Systems ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Internal Information ◽  
High Level

Maintaining the high level of information security at all stages of production is one of the most important tasks of modern industrial plans. In this case, the complex (integrated) approach plays a special role in which information security is realized on maximum number of automated systems and communication channels. The article is devoted to the mechanism of modelling the realization of external and internal information security threats by means of digital twin application. The presented model is a generalized digital copy of all industrial automated systems.

scholarly journals Updating Approaches to the Assessment of the Economic Security Level of an Enterprise

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-243
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Kudrevich ◽  
Oksana Trilitskaya ◽  
Yuliya Pechak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Security ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
Separate Area ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

The crisis conditions of economic development, the growth of the number of unprofitable enterprises, high level of bankruptcy and other unfavorable economic factors encourage the search for ways to improve the efficiency of economic entities and ensure their stable functioning. One of these areas is the provision of the economic security of an enterprise. The ways to ensure the economic security of enterprises have many features, so recently this problem has become a separate area of research. The purpose of the article is to determine and summarize the criteria and methods for the assessment of financial and economic security of domestic enterprises, establish the relationship between them on the basis of the analysis of existing scientific approaches. The paper presents the systematization and generalization of scientific works of many scientists, analyzes the existing conceptual apparatus of determining financial and economic security of an enterprise, and generalizes scientific approaches to the assessment of the level of financial and economic security at the macro level. The article analyzes the methods and approaches used to determine the level of economic security of a modern enterprise. The article defines the dependence between indicators of financial and economic activity of enterprises and a condition of their economic safety. The authors make the generalization of existing methods of assessing the economic security of an enterprise, analyze their features, and choose the methods which are expedient to the use in the diagnostics of economic security of a modern enterprise. The researchers analyze economic security of one of the largest enterprises of the Republic of Crimea – PJSC “Crimean Soda Plant” according to a set of indicators for the assessment of financial conditions and define the indicators and boundaries above (below) which the enterprise under analysis faces financial crisis. The prospect of further research in this direction is the choice of criteria (indicators) for the assessment of economic security of an enterprise, system of indicators charactering it, and methodological approaches determining the level of financial and economic security.

scholarly journals Characteristics of the level of economic security of Ukraine in the agrarian sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Oksana Sokil ◽  
Iveta Ubrežiová ◽  
Erik Janšto ◽  
Silvia Lenčéšová
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Agrarian Sector ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
High Level ◽  
Negative Factors

Purpose. Economic security is an important component of any system, whether it is a state or a society, or a family. It reflects the ability to maintain and create conditions for restoring economic well-being and protecting interests. According to the political situation in Ukraine, the protection of economic security has become one of the most important issues for resolution. In recent years, the agrarian sector has become one of the key parts for GDP since the industrial business has now turned to the background. The purpose of the article is to determine the economic security level in the agrarian sector. Methodology. The authors have used the questionnaire method and have made a survey in 67 Ukrainian companies which are operating in the agriculture in the Lviv region, Ukraine. The survey was conducted from June to July 2018. Findings. Survey results show that enterprises have an extremely negative attitude to the state of economic security of the country. However, it should be noted that entrepreneurs believe that the level of economic security of their business is at a higher level in comparing with the level of economic security of the country. Research limitations/implications. As noted above, the study was conducted at 67 agribusiness enterprises in the Lviv region. In the future, this study may be the basis for the same research in other regions of Ukraine. Practical implications. In the questionnaire template, we have made the list of methods which can help to prevent the effects of negative factors that could damage the company's economic security. The list of these measures can be used by enterprises in practice to ensure a high level of its security. Originality/Value. It should be noted that the originality of our work is that we have combined the research of two areas: the economic security of the company and agribusiness. We have identified the main problems of agrarian sector in ensuring the economic security of enterprises and provided a list of methods to improve the level of this type of security, the use of which will lead to a better functioning of the firm. Keywords: economic security, agrarian sector, GDP, Ukraine; Research type (choose one): research paper. JEL classification: О11, О13, Q12.

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