Information-communication Environment Research Articles

Design of Conceptual Model for RaisingAwareness of Digital Threats

In today’s information-communication environment and the connected world awareness of and preparedness for digital threats is of utmost importance for organizational systems. It is not possible to fully guard against or eliminate all digital threats but with an educated and trained awareness and recognizing, acknowledgment and management of the risks along with appropriate policies, tactics, techniques, procedures and processes in place organizational systems are competent to become digital resilient. In this paper our aim is to investigate how digital threat awareness can improve digital resilience. Related to this the goal is to identify digital threat awareness components within cybersecurity and digital security. In this regard we used modelbased approach and methodology to create model scheme so the novel Cyber Resilience Model within digital resilience concept is created. Digital resilience modelling approach takes account components of digital threats within digital security and engagement.

Information processing in info-communication media of geodynamic monitoring on the basis of adaptive queuing system

The paper considers the problem of modeling the processing of geodynamic information in a reconfigurable information-communication environment of geodynamic monitoring based on an adaptive queuing system. It was established that due to the complexity and diversity of geodynamic information, the number of geodynamic control points is expanding and the number of controlled parameters, the number of controlled objects of natural-technical systems (NTS) are increasing. This leads to an increase in the overall load on the info-communication monitoring environment, an increase in the processing time and the response time of the NTS geodynamic stability control system to negative changes. This leads to the need for adaptive optimization of the info-communication environment of geodynamic monitoring. The model of a composite stream describing the change in the nature of the tasks performed by geodynamic monitoring was determined, approaches to reconfiguration management based on minimization of the loss functional were proposed. The constructed model of the process of functioning and the analytical dependencies obtained for it allow analyzing the process of processing geodynamic information in info-communication environments to optimize the mechanisms of their functioning.

Research on Countermeasure of SQL Injection Attack

At present, it is indispensable to utilize data as an information society. Therefore, the database is used to manage large amounts of data. In real life, most of the data in a database is the personal information of a group of members. Because personal information is sensitive data, the role of the database administrator who manages personal information is important. However, there is a growing number of attacks on databases to use this personal information in a malicious way. SQL Injection is one of the most known and old hacking techniques. SQL Injection attacks are known as an easy technique, but countermeasures are easy, but a lot of efforts are made to avoid SQL attacks on web pages that require a lot of logins, but some sites are still vulnerable to SQL attacks. Therefore, this study suggests effective defense measures through analysis of SQL hacking technology cases and contributes to preventing web hacking and providing a secure information communication environment.

Special aspects of master data-based integrated management of region reputation in modern IT environment

Relevancy of issue under investigation is stipulated by rapid changing of traditional assumptions about regions competitive strength. These tendencies are explicitly characterized by (I) digitization of IT processes and (II) convergence of tools enabling advancement and formation of particular territory image. Today’s on-line environment is simultaneously (I) a platform for presenting the region in virtual space and (II) a tool forming preferences of territorial product consumers. While handling the region’s reputation it is necessary to take into account ‘digital footprint’ as an element which is forming the region’s image and competitive strength. Goal of research — development of recommendations to enable task-oriented formation of territorial image in targeted public consciousness.Main methods of this case study are: analysis of theoretical framework and statistic data, monitoring of news media and social media.The present article is addressing special aspects of regional reputation formation in modern IT medium and foreign and national experience regarding territory advancement in IT environment. It displays the possibility of master data employment for the purpose of particular territory image formation in the consciousness of main targeted public.It becomes possible to improve reputation and, as a consequence, to raise competitive strength of the regions in condition of today’s information-communication environment through sequential, systematic and orderly going through ‘recognition and assumption’ stages both in off-line and on-line media which allows, using targeting, to promptly disseminate information with minimum financial costs.Materials presented herein, constitute practical value for active and consistent implementation of digital technologies not only at the level of individual enterprises but for regional authorities as well.

The social positioning and social practices of Russian millenials

This article examines approaches towards studying generations. Millenials are highlighted as a specific object of research. Given their considerable inner diversity and non-uniformity, Russian millenials can be considered to be a holistic generation, which differs from elder generations in terms of social orientations and behavioral characteristics. The social self-identification of Russian millenials is examined, while identity criteria for various youth groups are defined. It is revealed that their self-assessment of status is considerably elevated when compared to elder generations, the former being based on somewhat different criteria. Despite the fact that material well-being, as is the case with elder generations, plays a key role in self-evaluation of status, millenials’ self-identification is also based on education level and professional status, which might indicate their willingness to accept the values of a meritocratic society. Millenials’ social capital is developed using sources provided by the new information-communication environment, with said sources being more diverse and attainable than ever before. Thanks to these new opportunities for developing social capital, the latter can be used much more efficiently in various environments. Millenials declare their high degree of solidarity with elder generations, while accepting a considerable amount of monetary and non-monetary assistance from the latter. Meanwhile they are extremely sympathetic to various forms of charity and volunteerism, while often participating in such activity themselves. In general, you can say that millenials are rather tightly linked to the system of social exchanges, while being prepared to assume the role of independent subjects of social activity. This article is based on data from a study titled “Differentiation of youth groups: economic activity, demographic behavior, social practices”, conducted by the Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting (Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) in 2019. The sample, which represents Russia’s population from age 18 to 35, consisted of 3.5 thousand respondents.

Enhanced secure device authentication algorithm in P2P-based smart farm system

The application of ICT technology to agriculture has raised interest in smart farm systems that can remotely manage growing environments. Data transmission in smart farm systems uses wireless networks such as ZigBee and Wireless LAN and TCP/IP based wired networks. And also use the P2P network to share smart farm system data with other smart farm systems. There are security vulnerabilities that may arise in information communication environment in smart farm system unlike traditional farms, the smart farm system automatically stores and manages data for growth environments such as temperature, humidity, and CO2. Therefore, an attacker can use a security vulnerability to manage temperature, humidity, and Co2, which can cause significant damage. In this paper, we propose an authentication method that performs minimum encryption and decryption operations by combining session key and public key to securely control smart farm system. The proposed authentication method reduces the encryption/decryption time, the registration time, and facilitates the use of the smart card with low computing performance by using the session key compared with the existing authentication method.

“E-libraries: Information Communication Environment” online course: Some results of the professional development program

The author examines the issues of distant learning and, in particular, the online learning course “E-libraries: Information Communication Environment”. She substantiates the relevance of this format by the need to train massively librarians and information specialists to manage big arrays of digital information as acquired by libraries. Development technique and technology for the online course of “E-libraries: Information Communication Environment” are described. Learning results based on testing statistics are presented; strong points and drawbacks of the course based on the feedback monitoring are identified; students’ reviews are considered.

Study of Productivity of Reading the Texts of New Nature : The Main Directions of Research in favour of the Future of Libraries

The urgency of the problem is caused by the importance of the efficient use of information resources of libraries in the conditions of emerging information-communication environment and the presence of a large number of texts that include verbal and nonverbal components, composition of heterogeneous semiotic structures. There is substantiated the possibility of transferring different methods of measuring productivity of reading the verbal texts to the research of texts of a new nature. There are analyzed the hardware methods for measuring productivity of reading, basing on the registration of oculogram, myograms in a historical context. There is made conclusion on prospects of future application of eyetrackers for studying the efficiency of reading the texts of new nature. It is noted presence of different terms for this type of texts: creolized, polycode, videoverbal, visual-verbal, lingvovisual, semiotically complicated text. Their real existence in the information-library and educational environment requires the solution of quality-oriented and qualimetric tasks. As an example, there is given the Competition “Immersing in the Creativity of A.S. Pushkin”, organized by the Association of school librarians of the Russian world, where the materials are presented by the creolized texts. There are defined the perspectives for research of productivity of reading for increasing the efficiency of various intellectual and information activities of people in the interests of the future of libraries.

ІНТЕРАКТИВНА ДОШКА ЯК ЗАСІБ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ПІЗНАВАЛЬНОЇ АКТИВНОСТІ Й ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ НАВЧАННЯ НА УРОКАХ ІНФОРМАТИКИ

The paper presents the theoretical substantiation of interactive approach as one of the leading in the technology of developmental education while preparing the informatics lessons. There were considered psychological and pedagogical aspects in formation of creative, informative competent person. Effective ways and methods of formation of information-communication environment through the use of interactive technologies and multimedia training are determined, as well as developed types of interactive lessons and exercises in the program SMART Notebook, aimed at creating interest and increasing cognitive activity of students to the subject. It has been done an experimental verification of efficiency of the developed system of interactive forms of lessons on informatics.

Створення інформаційно-комунікаційного середовища співробітників державної установи національний антарктичний науковий центр

The work is dedicated to improve the efficiency of interaction of employees of the State organization National Antarctic scientific center (SO NASC), through the development of information-communication environment. The review of information and communication environments for various activities and analyzes the main elements of such environments. Based on comparative analysis the structure of information-communication environment of SO NASC was proposed, describes the elements of the environment, depending on the scope of employee designed the layout of the environment.

Tviplomatija – nauja šiuolaikinės viešosios diplomatijos forma?

The internet and social media opened new ways of conducting public diplomacy activities. Twiplomacy entered as a storm to foreign policy and public diplomacy domain, and became one of the most debated concepts among practitioners and researchers. The most significant questions arising are: What does it mean for a foreign policy and public diplomacy activities? How does it change our understanding of public diplomacy? And what are the main characteristics which describe new reality of the foreign policy and public diplomacy? The article explores transformations of public diplomacy and its activities in a changing information-communication environment, the ways in which foreign policy practitioners try to adapt themselves to the new networked and network-making public diplomacy domain. The findings suggest that there is a need for a new approach of public diplomacy; diplomats should adapt their communication activities in accordance with the new information and communication tools of public diplomacy.

Information security of intellectual transport systems

This paper contains research results aimed at further de-velopment of models for information and communication environment, intellectual transport systems threat detec-tion and information security improvement in the emerg-ing unified information-communication environment, implementation of new and upgrading existing information systems in transport and increase the number of destabilizing effects on the availability, confidentiality and integrity of information. The analysis of traditional meth-ods of solving this task is conducted. The construction method of linear on parameters regressive mechanism of inference is offered for a consulting model with fuzzy data’s. Offered diagnostic model and the algorithm provides more precise determining of parameters of infor-mation security, which will result in increasing of level of protection of intellectual transport systems.

Implementing Electronic Courses Based on Moodle for Foreign Language Teaching at Russian Technical Universities

The main purpose of this work is to consider the most efficient modern educational technologies applied in teaching foreign languages to students of higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation. Special emphasis is placed on blended learning as a pedagogical approach of high priority. It is necessary to note that information-communication environment plays a great role in the realization of blended learning since the organization of educational process is impossible without it. The authors of the paper give consideration to one of the most relevant educational platform Moodle. An electronic course based on Moodle developed for the first year students of Tomsk Polytechnic University within teaching the discipline “Foreign Language” is reviewed in this work. The authors come to the conclusion that electronic courses designed by means of the e-learning platform Moodle are ideally suitable for the efficient blended learning implementation.

Method and model of intellectual threats detection for information and communication transport environment

The work contains research results aimed at further development of methods and models for information and communication environment transport sector intellectual threat detection and information security improvement in the emerging unified information-communication environment, creating a single integrated state information system, implementation of new and upgrading existing information systems in transport and increase the number of destabilizing effects on the availability, confidentiality and integrity of information. A method of predictive threat detection based on discrete procedures using the apparatus of logic functions and fuzzy sets, which allow to increase the efficiency of threats detection, create effective analysis, hardware and software solutions.

AKADEMINĖ BIBLIOTEKA KAIP ORGANIZACIJA: INFORMACINĖS KULTŪROS ASPEKTAS

During the last decade there were a lot of organizational changes in the academic libraries. The academic library become one of the leading divisions of the university in formation of information culture of students. It is obvious that academic libraries currently are caught up in a cultural and informational tsunami. The new global information-communication environment is formed very quickly. Modern ICT also is an integral part of modern academic library. These two main factors undoubtedly influences changes of classical schemes of organizational culture. The academic library nowadays is acting as educational change agent. Moreover, mass higher education, flexible delivery, student centred and problem based learning, information literacy and other graduate attributes, are accelerating curricular and educational change in progressive universities. Academic librarians need to be as partners for academic teachers and others in that change. The academic library directly takes part in educational process of university. It is clear that the universities should play the important role in human resource develop-ment to serve the needs of improving the efficiency and quality in all aspects of the people in the country. Such a mission can be solved only in very close participation of the academic library in educational process. The objectives of this study are (1) to study the basic concepts and levels of information culture, (2) to study the main criteria of the information culture in the academic libraries and related parameters affecting the development of the academic library to be a modern organization; and (3) to analyse practical aspects of display (expression) of the mentioned parametres of information culture. The main idea of this study is that in the academic library, as well as in other open organisation, it is pos-sibly to create favourable conditions for effective formation of information culture. The mission of the university academic library must therefore move beyond excellence in information identification, acquisition, organisation, access and skills development. It should be described and asserted in educational terms. It is obvious, that academic library must continue to redefine own role within the teaching and research mission of the university. All necessary conditions should be created in order to guarantee continious process of formation of information culture. Based on an example of the academic library of the University of Siauliai the basic directions of modernisation of functioning of library and effective ways of its participation in educational process are shown in the paper. Key words: academic library, information culture, case study.