PANIC AS A FACTOR OF INFORMATION SECURITY THREAT

Oleg Panchenko

doi:10.36690/2674-5216-2020-2-4

Abstract

Security has always been the most important goal and fundamental need of both the individual and society as a whole, as the formation and development of human society has always been associated with overcoming of various threats posed by nature, enemies, technical facilities and others. Information risks involve, first of all, a form of negative impact on the individual, society and the state as a whole, using all types of information. In this case, a direct impact on the mind and consciousness of people is carried out to form the necessary thoughts and judgments, which then in some way guide the people behavior. Ensuring national security is the most important condition for the functioning and development of human society, which requires consideration of socio-political, economic, legal, geopolitical, environmental, man-made and a number of other aspects. Among the various components, information security of national security plays a special role. In this article it is considered the concept of panic, its impact on information security of the state and society, information factors as the main causes of panic and methods of combating it. Among the preconditions for panic there are mentioned psychological, physiological, socio-psychological factors, the sudden appearance and accumulation of negative information content. The most effective means of struggleagainst panic are persuasion, categorical order, explanation of the danger fallacy, use of force, elimination (isolation) of the most dangerous alarmists. It has been proved that the prevention of panic in society, chaos in the system of state regulation depends on high-quality national information security, which consists of regulating the information space and conducting a competent state information policy.

Highlights

The new and recent history of Europe and Ukraine presents a lot of examples of panic reactions, usually accompanied by various social cataclysms and shocks of global (World War I and World War II, revolutions) and local scale
Information security occupies a special place in the general system of national security of the state, as it is an element of all components of the latter, as a result of which it simultaneously acquires an autonomous meaning
The current Ukrainian socio-economic situation, the imperfection of the state power organization and civil society create a wide range of internal threats to information security of the country, and the actual becomes the problem of creating and maintaining a secure environment for information exchange, which realizes the rules and policies of state security is because the information has lost the secondary role, becoming an important and impressive factor with its characteristics, due to the profit that can be obtained from its use

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Introduction

The new and recent history of Europe and Ukraine presents a lot of examples of panic reactions, usually accompanied by various social cataclysms and shocks of global (World War I and World War II, revolutions) and local scale (forms of social protest, terrorist actions, military conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine). Society is able to feel fear, apprehension, irritation, anger and others that cause motivated and unmotivated impulses, aggression, and panic on the part of society or individual components of its groups. This is especially true in times of information wars and psychological pressure on society. The need to study the patterns of panic behavior at people under conditions of information chaos and cognitive dissonance

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