Informational and legal aspects of protection of critical infrastructure of Ukraine

This paper is committed to the problems of legal regulation of critical infrastructure protection. It has been determined that the legal provision of protection of critical infrastructure has positive aspects, but at the same time it is affected by problems in public administration. The implementation of the provisions of the legislative act at the level of by-laws is rather slow. Informational and legal aspects of critical infrastructure protection determine the presence of a problem fields. The problems of legal regulation are caused by the complex nature of the information infrastructure, which causes difficulties in legal regulation. Another important aspect is finding a balance between the protection of critical infrastructure information and the government’s “open data” policy. This also causes difficulties for the policy of transparency and accountability in public administration. The specified problems cause a negative impact on legal regulation. Finding ways to solve this problem is an important task for law-making and legal science.