Security Legislation Research Articles

Integrating Global Norms for Gender Equity in Kazakhstan: Aligning Workplace and Social Security Legislation with Sustainable Development Goals

Objective: This study investigates the impact of international standards on shaping national approaches to gender equality, focusing on Kazakhstan’s legal and social frameworks. Theoretical Framework: This research is based on theoretical perspectives regarding implementing international law, offering a foundation for understanding how global norms influence national policies. Method: A multidisciplinary methodology is applied, including comparative legal analysis, normative-legal methods, systems analysis, and legal modeling. Forecasting techniques are also used to anticipate future trends in the alignment of national policies with international gender equality standards. Results and Discussion: This study identifies several critical challenges that Kazakhstan faces in reforming its social and labor policies to align with international standards. Significant institutional and legal barriers hinder progress in promoting gender equality and eliminating discrimination. The discussion focuses on these obstacles and examines their implications for policy development and implementation. Research Implications: The findings of this study contribute to academic research and policy development by enriching the scientific discourse on gender equality and offering recommendations for integrating international standards into national legislation. This study not only provides a theoretical basis but also offers practical ideas for improving policies and legal frameworks. Originality/Value: This study sheds new light on the relationship between international legal standards and national legislation. It offers practical recommendations for advancing gender equality and supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) by promoting the empowerment of women.

Holistic Information Security Management and Compliance Framework

The growing complexity of cybersecurity threats demands a robust framework that integrates various security domains, addressing the issue of disjointed security practices that fail to comply with evolving regulations. This paper introduces a novel information security management and compliance framework that integrates operational, technical, human, and physical security domains. The aim of this framework is to enable organizations to identify the requisite information security controls and legislative compliance needs effectively. Unlike traditional approaches, this framework systematically aligns with both current and emerging security legislation, including GDPR, NIS2 Directive, and the Artificial Intelligence Act, offering a unified approach to comprehensive security management. The experimental methodology involves evaluating the framework against five distinct risk scenarios to test its effectiveness and adaptability. Each scenario assesses the framework’s capability to manage and ensure compliance with specific security controls and regulations. The results demonstrate that the proposed framework not only meets compliance requirements across multiple security domains but also provides a scalable solution for adapting to new threats and regulations efficiently. These findings represent a significant step forward in holistic security management, indicating that organizations can enhance their security posture and legislative compliance simultaneously through this integrated framework.

Multimodal Biometric System Fusion Using Fingerprint and Iris with Convolutional Neural Network

Biometric sensing technology became everyday life frequent component as a result of world requirement for info security and safety legislation. A strong and efficient individual authentication has appeared because of new developments in multimodal biometrics. Multimodal biometrics integrates different biological traits in trying for creating considerable effect on identification performance. Latent fingerprint biometrics refer to effective human identification system for criminals given the accessible crime evidence shreds. Although, biometric trait restrictions like intra-class variation, sensed data noise, lack of individuality caused low matching score that possesses a negative effect on recognition and investigation process. This paper uses two unimodal biometrics—the fingerprint and the iris—applied as multi-biometrics to show that using these biometrics can produce excellent results with high accuracy. Every biometric result is weighted for involvement in the final decision, and the decision level is utilized for fusion. For every biometric result integration effect, a neural network is used. The datasets' experimental findings have demonstrated a notable biometric system identification capability. The accuracy performance of the suggested approach is 100, the FAR is 0.1, and the EER is 0.1. To demonstrate the efficacy of the suggested system, the suggested method is contrasted with a few other approaches currently in use.

Legal Aspects of Food Security from the Perspective of Genetics and Genomics

The current state of the legal support of food security in Russia is examined from the perspective of genetics and genomics. From a comparison of conventional and legal ideas about food security, priorities are identified and foundational principles analyzed. In contrast to earlier periods, the topic of food independence as a component of food security has received higher priority in more recent legal acts. As part of a balanced approach to prohibitions, permissions, and the imposition of controls in food security in the Russian Federation, the development of national genetic and genomic technologies should be taken into account. Future prospects for the development of food security legislation in the Russian Federation are considered. A proposition to legally formalize the principles of state policy at the level of the federal law is presented.

Instrumentalization of Fake News and Fake News Laws: A Content Analysis of Hong Kong Newspapers in Transitional Times

ABSTRACT The debate around disinformation has shifted to the political instrumentalization of the term fake news, a growing global trend affecting both democratic and less-democratic countries. While researchers have paid much attention to the consequences of disinformation or how fake news allegations could harm journalism and democracies, few have examined how the term may be instrumentalized to restrict press and political freedoms in non-Western contexts under an authoritarian turn. Through a quantitative content analysis, this paper explores how the term fake news is used in Hong Kong’s newspapers with diverse political inclinations. The paper goes on to analyze how the discursive uses of the term may be connected to the framing of fake news as an existential threat and to the legitimization or critique of fake news laws. The findings show that uses of the term as an attack to adverse media outlets and political opponents are most frequent in state-owned newspapers. State-owned newspapers are also most likely to frame fake news as an existential security issue and legislation as a solution. Implications of the findings as well as theoretical and empirical contributions are discussed.

Rosa Rayside and Domestic Workers in the Fight against War and Fascism

This article explores connections between domestic worker activism and anti-fascism in the United States—two topics that historians have usually considered separately. Through the lens of Black domestic worker and organizer Rosa Rayside, we see the strong links between the two political movements. In 1934, after co-founding the New York Domestic Workers Union (DWU), Rayside attended the World Congress of Women against War and Fascism in Paris. That congress defined fascism broadly, around nationalism, racism, repression of radicals, denial of civil liberties, capitalist and imperialist greed and warmongering, and threats to women. Notably, the congress specifically identified challenging U.S. racism and defending labor rights for domestic workers as part of a global anti-fascist fight. Influenced by this congress, and by communist organizing in Harlem during the Great Depression, Rayside and the DWU drew on anti-fascism ideologically and organizationally in the years that followed. Rayside worked to include domestic workers in labor and social security legislation, testifying before U.S. Congress in 1935 and helping to form the anti-fascist National Negro Congress (NNC) in 1936. Although their immediate legislative achievements were limited, the strategies that Rayside and the DWU pioneered—collaborating with community and political organizations, spearheading legislation, and shaping understandings of Black women’s “triple oppression” based on race, class, and gender—were vital to the Black anti-fascist movement in the United States and shaped gains by domestic workers in later decades.

Facilitating the transition to formal economy by means of labor law and social security law

The article is devoted to the search for a solution to such an acute and urgent problem of modern society as the informal economy, which has an adverse impact both on the state and its financial instruments, and on the population employed in it. Analyzing the norms of Labor Law and Social Security Law, the authors evaluate the current legal regulation through the prism of its focus on the transition to formal employment and the economy. Taking into account the peculiarities of informal employment, they propose ways to improve labor and social security legislation.

President Rule Article 356 Federalism and Issue of National Security

Federalism is an organisational structure in which authority is shared or split among all of the subordinate governmental institutions rather than being solely vested in the central government. The relationship between the Union and the States is depictedin the Indian system.Because the constitutional division of powers by levels of government can control the potential hazards that security and intelligence authorities represent for individual and collective freedoms, federalism may be preferable to unitary security regimes. Federalism, however, can also be a security problem since it is believed to obstruct effective decision-making about public safety.The legal-institutional framework and constitution of the federal system in India exhibit a unique trend. Studies on national security legislation typically centre on striking a balance between security and liberty, with the vast majority of these studies\ examining this balance along the horizontal axis between federal branches. The vertical axis and the post-9/11 emergence of state and local government in American national security legislation and policy are two additional features that this article adds to question that traditional focus. It promotes a federalist framework that places a strong emphasis on vertical intergovernmental arrangements for the longterm promotion and mediation of a wide variety of policy values. When it comes to national security intelligence and counterterrorism, the federal and local governments collaborate and sometimes clash. This federalism framework clarifies these dynamics and provides insights that can help shape future reforms.

Information Resilience in Networks: An Analysis of a National Security Legislation Evidence Base

Governance theory emphasises that networks are pivotal to societal governance and related steering mechanisms. One important means of steering is legislation, the evidence base of which is built on the interaction between social actors and the expert hearings related to the legislative process. This research uses network analysis to examine the construction of a legislative knowledge base and the information resilience displayed in the related networks. The data are derived from experts (n=440) appearing in committee hearings on five proposed acts of parliament. The results show that the expert consultations behind the legislation are official-oriented and illuminate the limited information produced by the private sector and a narrow view of scientific expertise. The network reveals epistemic authorities – mainly representing the security cluster – acting as gatekeepers. A more systemic approach is needed to build an evidence base encompassing the views on societal phenomena derived from different disciplines.

Addressing Criminal Liability for Misuse of Trade Secrets Under Australian Law: Is the Current Legal Framework Adequate to Protect the Interests of Owners of Trade Secrets?

The emergence and dominance of knowledge-based economies have heightened the importance of trade secrets as a “currency” for attaining competitiveness in the market and driving innovation. Yet espousing policies to govern trade secret protection, especially in the criminal law sphere, was not something on which legislative and regulatory policymakers traditionally focused. Recent legislative incentives at a global level have caused the tide to shift and, after decades of being somewhat neglected, the questions pertaining to criminal liability for trade secret misuse are finally gaining attention. The Australian response to recent initiatives ensued in 2018 with the enactment of the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018 (Cth) (“EFI Act”) which introduced the first statutory provisions dedicated to criminalisation of state-sponsored theft (economic espionage) of trade secrets. This Act, however, does not provide a comprehensive legal framework to address criminal liability for trade secret misuse, as it leaves outside the scope of its regulation the criminalisation of the theft of trade secrets by individuals for their own benefit. This paper analyses the adequacy of the Australian legal regime concerning criminal liability for trade secret misuse. The analysis is informed by a comparison of the legal provisions of the Australian trade secret regime with that adopted in the United States (“U.S.”) which currently offers a comprehensive framework of protection and criminalises economic espionage as well as the theft of trade secrets. This comparative analysis serves to determine: first, whether the “one way” avenue of statutory protection under Australian law suffices to protect the interests of the owners of trade secrets; and, second, whether a potential reform of the regime designed to include dedicated statutory provisions to criminalise the theft of trade secrets, as is the case in the U.S., could potentially afford a more adequate protection of the interests of trade secret owners.

Main directions of ensuring national security and mechanisms of public administration under martial law

The task of ensuring national security is currently a key one for Ukraine, as a condition and goal of reforms in all spheres of state and social activity. The content of transformations in this area should be linked to ensuring and comprehensively strengthening Ukraine's sovereignty and preserving its territorial integrity. The current situation in the world is characterized by the presence of “points of tension”, the desire of other states to implement their geopolitical plans and unresolved social problems. In addition, the state is the main institution that creates appropriate conditions for the functioning of each business entity. In Ukraine, there is a need to define the benchmarks of the security system, study international experience and implement it in the process of improving national security legislation. The article examines and analyzes the theoretical foundations of the state management of national security development, reveals the essence of such concepts as “national security”, “economic security”; identifies the components of national and economic security of Ukraine; mechanisms of state management of economic security; characterizes three main types of security threats, namely: external and internal; real and potential; global, regional and local; identifies threats affecting economic security; develops recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the state management of economic security.

Drones as an Example of the Use of Smart Technologies in Cooperation with the State Security Forces in the Context of the Smart Cities Concept in the Czech Republic

Using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) in security has become common in the Czech Republic. This paper focuses on using drones as an example of the application of smart technologies in conjunction with the Internet of Things (IoT) and state security forces, especially in cooperation with the police, fire and medical emergency services in the context of the new Smart Cities concept. Drones are one of the most suitable examples of use along with IoT within the security sector, which play a key role in the daily protection of citizens' safety, public order security and crisis management. It is related to developing and implementing 5G networks, which allow real-time transmission of data obtained by drones directly to information systems, and is also gaining importance. This technology enables fast and efficient communication between the different actors involved in an intervention and creates a platform for fast and effective emergency response. Among other things, paying attention to cybersecurity, such as securing data transmissions, protecting against cyber threats, complying with security standards and legislation, and introducing special procedures and methodologies applicable in crisis, is essential.

Critical Opinion on the current economic and technological security legislation : From the perspective of understanding and application of the theory of legislative evaluation and system consistency

Critical Opinion on the current economic and technological security legislation : From the perspective of understanding and application of the theory of legislative evaluation and system consistency

EXPLORING TRENDS IN SOCIAL SECURITY MANAGEMENT: A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW

Social security systems worldwide encounter a range of challenges including poverty, inequality, pandemic-induced impacts, non-traditional employment, aging populations, and threats posed by the collaborative economy. These challenges call for various reforms that encompass private sector engagement, expenditure reduction, expanded coverage, improved management practices, decoupling benefits from employment, inclusion of local stakeholders, and support for self-employed workers. Implementing these reforms is imperative for safeguarding the well-being of vulnerable populations. The current bibliometric review aims to analyse research trends related to social security management. This review utilised ScientoPy and VOSviewer to comprehend the nature of collected datasets from Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases. The findings of this review revealed that the number of publications in both databases peaked in 2019, suggesting that previous studies continue to be interested in the current topic. The scholarly publication “Social Security Bulletin” is renowned for its extensive coverage of social security management research for empowering employees welfare. The keyword “social security” has significantly impacted the thematic content of scholarly social security management for the past three decades, from 1990 to 2023, as previous researchers have used it most frequently. Based on overlay visualisation mapping, the current review demonstrates that the terms "coverage," "social security legislation," and "atypical work," have been accorded greater significance since 2018. This study provides a thorough and worldwide perspective on the crucial subjects of social security management in order to empowerment of employees welfare. It is aimed at potential readers and researchers interested in better understanding these concepts and conducting more rigorous research on social security management.

LEGAL ANALYSIS OF TARGETING AS A BASIS FOR THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

Introduction. The relevance of the chosen topic lies in the fact that the system of social assistance is always based on the main principle - to support those who are unable to take care of themselves. Summary of the main results of the study. At the current stage of transformation of Ukrainian society, given the progressive differentiation of incomes, the most important task of the social security system is to fight poverty. A well-developed social assistance system is an important element of a modern market economy, as people face certain economic risks and other setbacks throughout their lives that can lead to loss of income. Moreover, poverty and its interrelated phenomena such as disease, crime, and social neglect have an impact on society and economic development. However, it is difficult to define who is poor. This is especially difficult in Ukraine because of the existence of a large shadow economy, underreporting of income, and a rather weak administrative system. The problem is that in recent years, as a result of lawmaking activities, many new legal principles have emerged that guide the legal regulation of the social sphere and outline the general directions of the realization of social rights. Some principles faded away, losing their relevance and ceasing to influence the realization of social rights, while others, on the contrary, having barely appeared in social security legislation, are gaining a stronger position in the system of sectoral principles. One of these principles is the principle of targeting. Targeting is a characteristic tool of anti-poverty and cost-cutting programs. The article formulates the main principles of targeted social assistance for the poor. A brief assessment of the Ukrainian social assistance system is made. Conclusion. The article provides a theoretical overview of the targeting of social assistance as a component of the state's social policy, which in turn will have a positive impact on the effectiveness of social protection. It is important to note that in the current conditions of economic development, the problem of overcoming poverty and ensuring decent living conditions for citizens is a priority task for every state. This goal is achieved by allocating funds to the targeted, least well-off categories of the population. Thus, ideally, all those in need and the poor should receive assistance provided by the laws of Ukraine on the basis of targeted social payments. Targeting is a characteristic tool of anti-poverty programs.

Some aspects of social security legislation in the light of constitutional changes

This article is dedicated to the issue of improving legal regulation in the field of social security, taking into account constitutional amendments. The author explores the role and significance of the Russian Constitution as a system-forming source of law, analyzes the changes concerning the formation of the pension system based on the principles of universality, fairness, and generational solidarity. The article provides an assessment of the current state of pension legislation and considers the possibility of enhancing the effectiveness of the pension system in the implementation of constitutional changes.

Regarding the ordering of individual definitions in the regulatory and legal regulation of economic security

The scientific article examines issues related to the determination of the essence, role and meaning of definitions in the regulatory and legal regulation of economic security. The uniqueness of the phenomenon of economic security is emphasized, which is the guarantor of ensuring the national interests of the state, society, and the individual in the economic sphere and the basis for the unhindered implementation of the state’s strategic national priorities. Ensuring these interests and implementing strategic priorities is possible through the creation of effective legal regulation, which includes various legal means, in particular, regulatory prescriptions. It is pointed out the important role of definitions in normative and legal regulation, which contain definitions of concepts as integral elements of the legal basis for ensuring economic security. It is noted that the legal definitions of the concepts have a universally binding nature and contribute to the formation of a single legal space. The functions of legal definitions in the normative and legal regulation of ensuring economic security are revealed. An attempt was made to evaluate the conceptual and categorical apparatus in the analyzed field from the point of view of the universality of the relevant definitions, the completeness of their textual expression, as well as state policy. It is noted that the current security legislation does not contain a legislative definition of key concepts in the field of ensuring economic security. In this regard, the problem of unification of the conceptual and categorical apparatus in the field of ensuring economic security by adopting the main strategic planning documents is raised. In the opinion of the author, taking into account the main approaches of the legislation to the definition of national interests, the legal concept of “economic security”, similar to the definition of “state security”, should reflect a certain state of the state, under which conditions are created to ensure the appropriate state of security of the economic system of Ukraine. The expediency of developing a new Strategy for the sustainable development of the economy of Ukraine for the post-war period was emphasized, which would not only determine the ways to achieve goals and implement priorities of national interests in the field of ensuring economic security and foresee the main challenges and threats, but also contain a legal definition of “economic security” and such its components, such as “financial security”, “foreign economic security”, “investment and innovation security”, etc.

Party politics and foreign policy: The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan's security policy expansion in Southeast Asia

AbstractThis article explains the role of political parties in influencing a democratic state's international security cooperation policy. It focuses on Japan's expanded security cooperation with Southeast Asian countries pushed by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The LDP as the ruling party saw Japan's expanded security cooperation with Southeast Asian countries as an effort to success Abe's “Take Back Japan” campaign and to overperform the previous Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration. Moreover, Japan was able to expand its security cooperation with Southeast Asian countries because LDP and its junior coalition partner New Komeito, using its preliminary review system in foreign and security policy making, and its stable power in parliament, were able to pass security legislations allowing Japan's to have more security cooperation with Southeast Asian countries.

The EU Cybersecurity Skills Academy : A silver bullet to address the cyber security skills gap in the European Union?

The economic, social and security imperative of addressing the cyber security skills gap, further exacerbated by recent crises and the evolving nature of cyber threats, is now widely acknowledged as a key priority to ensure the resilience of our digital economies and societies. This paper explores the potential of the proposed EU Cybersecurity Skills Academy, introduced by the European Commission (EC) as a flagship of the European Year of Skills in April 2023, to address this challenge in the European Union (EU). With an increasing shortage of cyber security professionals, the paper highlights the expected upsurge in demand for cyber security experts in the face of new EU cyber security legislation. The diversity of the expertise required, especially in non-technical fields, poses a unique challenge. At the same time, existing initiatives at both national and EU levels lack coordination and synergy, hindering their impact on the EU job market. This paper outlines how the EU Cybersecurity Skills Academy can offer a comprehensive solution to this challenge by providing a one-stop shop for cyber security training and funding offers across Europe and addressing the mismatch between available skills and market needs. The Academy’s pillars, which cover knowledge generation and training, stakeholder involvement, funding and progress measurement, are further detailed. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations for the EU cyber security ecosystem in order to help make this initiative a success and a potential model for replication in other parts of the world.

Foreign Interference and the Incremental Chilling of Free Speech

Foreign interference is a growing threat to all liberal democracies, including Australia. To respond to this growing threat, the Department of Home Affairs has developed a complex ‘Counter-Foreign Interference Strategy’ (CFIS). At the heart of the strategy lies a suite of interlocking and overlapping legislation, including the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018 ( FITS Act), the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018 and the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Act 2018 (Electoral Funding Act). The aim of this paper is to explain and clarify the legislation and the free speech burdens it imposes, and determine whether the laws are suitably targeted at foreign interference without unduly limiting legitimate communication activity. We argue that the current criminal law regime is ineffective in addressing the problem because foreign interference is a complex and pervasive phenomenon taking many different forms — from espionage on university campuses to anonymous and targeted social media campaigns. The legislative scheme is not properly tailored to tackle foreign interference as it actually occurs.