The subject of this research is the state policy of Ukraine in the field of information protection. The purpose of the work is to reveal the specific features of information protection as an object of administrative and legal regulation. We must state that the growing role of information in modern society necessitates a purposeful and holistic state policy to address the typical legal problems facing society in the information sphere. One such problem is information security. In turn, the properties of information, as a specific object of state regulation, necessitated the development of a new branch of law – "information law". The latter, based on the achievements of civil, criminal, constitutional and administrative law, forms the scientific and conceptual basis for relevant research. Currently, the assessment of the current state of "state policy of Ukraine in the field of information protection" requires consideration and clarification of the content, essence and features of such concepts as: "information", "information protection", "regulation", "administrative and legal regulation", "policy ","state policy" and "state policy in the field of information protection". In the study: the state of scientific study of the formation of state policy in the field of information is analyzed; different types of information that are protected by the state are identified; the approach to the formation of information policy in Ukraine is described. The results of the study show that the main feature of administrative and legal protection of information is its object, which is not so much the rights of certain persons or the legal relations that arise between them, but primarily the information itself. The research materials allow to separate the protection of information from other areas of state information policy. Taking into account a wide range of legal issues related to information, as well as fluctuations in the development of the information society, the allocation of information protection in a particular area of public policy provides favorable conditions for improving appropriate measures of administrative and legal regulation.