General theoretical foundations of the study of the concept of «information security»

The article considers general theoretical approaches to understanding the concept of «information security». The study of the holistic concept of «information security» requires the use of a comprehensive approach to understanding the meaning of «information and security». It should be noted that the term «information» is not used as a system-forming component, but is used to define the qualitative characteristics of the basic element, that is, the category of «security», which reveals the industry direction and content of measures, and creates a corresponding field of regulatory and legal regulation. The legal analysis of the regulatory framework in the field of information security showed that the term «information» has received a unified application in many areas of public life. Its value is also evidenced by its widespread use in all branches of jurisprudence, since according to the scope of the concept embedded in it, it acquires the properties of influencing specific legal relations, giving them a preventive and preventive content. The primary sources of the formation of the legal phenomenon of «information security» are investigated. This approach is taken in order to show the special importance of this sphere for all stages of social development through source and historical and legal analysis of monuments from philosophy, history, jurisprudence and other documents. It is substantiated that the problems of information security protection were not considered separately from the main spheres of public life, but were comprehensively accompanied by both customs at the early stages of understanding statehood and written rules that were imposed as a duty for members of civil society. A study of the theoretical, scientific and regulatory framework of the field of information security protection showed that there is a significant gap between these components, which negatively affects the general state of functioning of the information component in the general mechanism of national security. In this regard, it became necessary to conduct a deep analysis of the source base, to develop scientific and practical approaches to understanding both the concept of «information security» itself and other, derived concepts (for example, threats to information security, sources of threats to information security, etc.).