National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America: Experience for Ukraine

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The purpose of the article is to investigate the positive practice of securing the US cybersecurity in the context of its possible implementation in Ukraine. For its achievement the following tasks were formed: to describe the National cybersecurity strategy of the USA as a political and legal document – to research the institutional mechanism of cybersecurity; to uncover perspective possibilities for introducing positive experience of the USA and Counting negative experience in this area. Methodology. Methodological instruments are defined based on the specified purpose, objectives and specifics of the study. In the fundamentals of nom The comparative-legal and historical methods were used to determine the peculiarities of the development and adoption of the national strategy of the USA and other states; system and gnoseological methods – to establish the contents of the so-called categories and phenomena as cyberspace, cybersecurity; dialectical and Formal-Legal – in the process of and scientific provisions; modeling and Forecasting methods – to determine the promising directions of improvement of national practice in this field. Scientific novelty consists in figuring out the nature and the US cyber strategy, their significance for National and international law. Paid attention to the structural characteristics of the latest National strategies of 2017 and 2018, their importance for the national security of the USA. Thus the key areas are the protection of the American people, America and American lifestyle, ensuring the prosperity of America, preserving the peace by promotion of American influence. The fundamental principle enshrined freedom of the Internet, prosperity, security and openness of the network world. In our opinion, Ukraine has the appropriate definition of relevant foreign policy landmarks in this area aimed at preventing and eliminating cyber threats. Conclusions. The National Cyber strategy of the United States since 2018 is focused on preserving leadership, enhancing the impact and promotion of U.S. interests in the international arena. Security of cyberspace is a part of their national security, which is confirmed by the correlation of areas of the eponymous strategies. The priorities recognize the development and introduction of a multilateral Internet governance model, the need to prevent the use of freedom online to create political threats. As the development and resilience of the digital economy is regarded as the basis of American prosperity, the primary steps are: developing innovations and investing in the infrastructure of recent generations with the involvement of the private sector and civil society; Development of international cooperation; Creation of personnel reserve, improvement of the potential of specialists in the field of cyber defense. Keywords: cyberarea; cybersecurity; information security state; USA; ensuring.