INFORMATION SECURITY OF SOCIETY IN THE PERIOD OF WAR

Abstract

The article examines the information society and its specifics. The Internet, which exerts a strong influence on the dynamics of social changes and the consciousness of modern youth, whose socialization in the information society is carried out under the powerful influence of mass media in general and the Internet in particular, is considered. It is noted that network communication has certain advantages that make us forget about its disadvantages, as, however, in the situation of information access, which makes both useful information, but also information of negative content, easily available. The information security of society was considered, and it was noted that information and technical progress contributes to the emergence of new types of dangers, the most significant of which include: information weapons, social crimes in the IT sphere, as well as the use of information technologies in political struggle. It should be noted that the security of personal information is closely related to the security of society. Information security of a person is a state of protection of his psyche and health from harmful information that can lead to inadequate perception ofreality and/or deterioration of his physical condition. Social information security is the ability of society and its individual members to freely exercise their constitutional rights related to the free acquisition, processing, creation and distribution of information, as well as the degree of protection against harmful informational influence. The drive towards an information society creates new types of dangers and threats. The society itself is forced to respond to the challenges of international, national, public and personal security. Methods of combating the information war and methods of protecting the information space of society are given.