Administrative and legal regulation of OSINT functioning in the field of national security

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of administrative and legal regulation of OSINT functioning in the field of national security. The article draws attention to the fact that the study of such a complex and important phenomenon as ensuring the functioning of OSINT in the field of national security is relevant for the domestic science of administrative law. Emphasis is placed on the fact that in modern scientific research there is a need to clarify the essence and content of the concepts of «administrative and legal regulation in the field of national security» and «administrative and legal regulation of ensuring the functioning of OSINT in the field of national security». The concepts of «administrative and legal regulation», «administrative and legal support», «administrative and legal regulation of ensuring the functioning of OSINT in the field of national security» are disclosed. It is suggested that under the administrative-legal regulation of ensuring the functioning of OSINT, we understand the system of administrative-legal means, methods, forms and methods regulated by the norms of administrative law that ensure the activity of special OSINT subjects in accordance with the needs of ensuring national security and eliminating threats and challenges. It has been found that the administrative and legal regulation of OSINT functioning is aimed at streamlining social relations in the sphere of OSINT functioning, creating a system of legal means, methods and methods and proper conditions for the activities of special subjects using OSINT with the help of administrative law norms.
 The administrative and legal regulation of ensuring the functioning of OSINT has certain properties: it is the activity of special entities that use OSINT; constitute a complex of means and measures, which are carried out with the aim of eliminating threats in the field of national security; is implemented by regulating the relevant sphere of social relations through the establishment of duties, prescriptions, permits and prohibitions