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The problems of information security of the state are quite fully covered in the Doctrine of Information Security of the Russian Federation. Let us dwell on two of them: the problem of information wars and information terrorism.

Information war - these are actions taken to achieve information superiority by damaging the information sphere of the enemy and ensuring one's own information security.

Information wars are waged with the help of information weapons, the use of which is comparable in effectiveness to the action of weapons of mass destruction. The idea of using and the material foundations of modern information weapons were formed as informatization developed. The computerization of various spheres of public life, the development of telecommunications and information networks, the creation of databases and data banks, the widespread introduction of the latest information technologies and the transformation of the profession of a programmer into a prestigious and mass specialty created the basic scientific, technological and economic prerequisites for the emergence and improvement of a new type of information weapons and in at the same time, they made the objects of management and communications, energy and transport, the banking system very vulnerable to information impact.

Information weapon is a set of means, methods and technologies that provide the possibility of forceful influence on the information sphere of the enemy in order to destroy its information infrastructure, state management systems, and reduce defense capability.

Versatility, secrecy, breadth of impact, choice of place and time of use, efficiency and lack of legal restrictions on use make information weapons an extremely dangerous means of armed struggle. It can also be used in peacetime. Moreover, malicious influences on a technical system, including a military-technical one, can be exerted already at the stage of its design and creation due to the deliberate introduction of special sabotage-type defects (software tabs) into the system software. The complexity of modern software tools makes it practically impossible to identify such bookmarks.

The theater of operations in the conduct of information wars is the entire world information space, and the destructive power of information weapons in the process of further informatization will only increase. Information wars, especially in the context of the existence of an almost monopoly position in the information sphere of a small number of countries, can cause national, regional and even global information disasters, the devastating consequences of which for world civilization will be no less disastrous than the consequences of nuclear disasters. The threat of an information war in the global context is a factor of hidden military-political pressure and intimidation, a factor capable of violating strategic parity and undermining the existing balance in the world political arena.

The actions of individuals or groups aimed at damaging the information sphere or using it for personal gain are called information crime. As a rule, these are one-time crimes against a specific object of the information space.

Information terrorism - this is a special form of violence, which is a conscious and purposeful information impact or a threat to use such influence to force the government to achieve political, economic, religious and other goals by a terrorist organization or individual terrorists, accompanied by an emotional impact on society to arouse fear and panic in it , loss of confidence in the authorities and the creation of political instability.

Information terrorism, while similar to information warfare and crime in form and methods, differs from them in goals and tactics. The main thing in the tactics of information terrorism is that a terrorist act should have dangerous consequences, become widely known to the population and receive a wide public outcry. As a rule, the demands of terrorists are accompanied by the threat of a repetition of a terrorist act without specifying a specific object of action.

The threat of information terrorism has become an important geopolitical factor, and the fight against it requires the combined efforts of all state institutions, as well as the intensification of international cooperation in this area.

Authors: Gubanov V.M., Mikhailov L.A., Solomin V.P.

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