CYBER SECURITY: CURRENT STATE OF THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK AND PROSPECTS FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article deals with the current regulatory and legal framework for ensuring cyber security in the information space within modern conditions. Approaches to defining cyber security are analyzed modern threats in the information space are outlined. The provisions of regulatory and legal acts regulating relations in cyberspace that determine the need to ensure cyber security are analyzed. It is stated that the Law of Ukraine “On the Basic Principles of Cyber security in Ukraine” is the first step and the basis for more global legislative work towards forming special regulatory material on ensuring cyber security. The factors that determined the current state of the regulatory and legal framework for ensuring cyber security are identified, which were: 1) the rapid development of information technologies and their implementation in all spheres of public life; 2) the active evolution of the cyber security threat, i.e. the forms of using information systems for illegal purposes and at all levels of criminal activity; 3) reflect the established practices of legal regulation of relevant relations, capable not only of promptly responding to changes in the system of special cyber security threats but also of rapidly evolving following the development of threats in cyberspace. Determined that due to the integrative (integral) nature of the cyber security phenomenon, determined by the scale of informatization of all spheres of public life, the regulatory and legal provisions aimed at its provision have both public and private law nature and relate exclusively to the branches of civil, financial, administrative and other law. This circumstance, in turn, contributes to the next stage of the evolution of legislation on cyber security, its sectoral development at the level of special regulatory provisions, and in the context of individual spheres of public relations.