Russia''s information security and threats to the global information society

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 098-104
Author(s):  
A.N. Sulimin ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. Zinovieva

The article evaluates the economic, military, social and humanitarian opportunities of Russia in the emerging global information society based on the World Wide Web. The author notes that in spite of the significant economic potential of the internet and its contribution to the world economy, today there is a tendency towards militarization of information space and the growth of the importance of issues of global information security. This trend is a reflection of international system's shifting towards multipolarity. This process is accompanied by the growth of conflicts including superbugs attacks Stuxnet on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, WikiLeaks revelations, Snowden affair. Russian diplomacy is trying to foster the development of global rules regulating the information society and information security based on respect for sovereignty and equality of states. Russia is a global power center in the military-political and diplomatic dimensions of the information space, while in economic and socio-cultural spheres it acts as a regional player. At the same time, the militarization of information increases the importance and priority of the military and political information tools although it does not eliminate the need to further strengthen the economic and technological potential of Russia. Military and diplomatic potential of Russia allow it to have systemic impact on the direction of development of the global information society - that is, it makes Russia a power center in this sphere of international politics. Given that today information technology is an important component of the so-called "aggregate power" of a state, the information potential of Russia allows it to be a global center of power both online and off line.


Author(s):  
E. Zinovieva

The article investigates the challenges and risks to international security arising from the development of the global information society. The basic trends of the global information society development are analyzed, as well as theoretical approaches to the theory of information society. The author also assesses the impact of the global information society development on the world politics. The paper examines the main challenges, risks and threats arising from the development of the global information society, as well as the prospects for international cooperation in the field of international information security.


Author(s):  
Oleg Panchenko ◽  

Ensuring information security is considered as one of the priority state tasks, as an important element of national security. The development of state information policy in Ukraine should foresee the fact that all problems related to information security (formation of information legislation, counteraction to threats in the information sphere, counteraction to information conflicts, information wars, development of legal means and protection organizational measures against information wars), must be resolved holistically. The aim of the article: to investigate the principles of realization of the state request for information security. The research methodology: the methods of logical comparison, systematization and generalization, which made it possible to achieve the goal of the study. The importance of developing an appropriate, consistent state information policy aimed at obtaining a qualitatively new result in the field of information security of a person, society and the state, which would meet the state and trends of the global information society and generally accepted international and European standards in this field of interest, has been outlined. State information policy should be implemented in stages based on the use of organizational, legal and economic principles. At the first stage of the state information policy realization it is necessary to consistently reform information production in the system of state power and management as a whole, at the second - to transform the available information resources gradually into real material and spiritual benefits for the population of the country.


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