Informational and legal characteristics of the main components of the state security sector

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the informational and legal characteristics of the main components of the national security sector of the state. It is noted that the category “national security” reflects the qualitative state of the regulation of social relations in the state and emphasizes the fact that the security of the state consists in ensuring national identification. It has been established that the provision of state security is structured through the differentiation of national security by sector-specific (includes: military security, public security, state security, cyber security, foreign policy security, environmental security, information security) and subject characteristics (includes the activities of authorized subjects). The concept of “state security sector” is defined as a set of legal relations, the content of which is the activity of authorized subjects to ensure national security as a whole, and in certain differentiated directions. Amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On National Security” are proposed.
 Attention is focused on the fact that the information and legal characteristics of the state security sector are an integral component of the national security of the state as a whole and its individual components. The importance of eliminating information threats has institutionalized a separate area of state security - information security. It was established that cyber security is an independent component of state security derived from information security, which emerged as a result of the development of digital technologies and the spread of the use of information and telecommunication systems for the purposes of information dissemination.
 The institutional system of ensuring information security is singled out, which is formed from a set of authorized subjects, which are grouped depending on their legal status and available powers in the field of information security as follows: 1) state bodies authorized to ensure national security; 2) bodies of executive power, which are empowered in the specified sphere of public relations; 3) law enforcement agencies; 4) auxiliary entities that can carry out separate activities aimed at ensuring information security.