Humanitarian approach to the problem of ensuring information security of person and its role in pedagogical researches

In the conditions of modern society the problem of information security becomes more and more important, but most often it is considered in technological and legal aspects. Revealing the wide range of objects and subjects of information security (from the state and society to various social groups and the personality) the author of the article declares that the person takes the most vulnerable position in a question of ensuring the information security. Analyzing technocratic and humanitarian approaches to the definition of the concept "information security of person" the author of the article arrives conclusions about advantages of the second method, less widespread in modern scientific researches but actual for development of innovative educational projects in high education. Resources of humanitarian approach in identifying and implementing pedagogical conditions for ensuring information security of a person in the educational process of the higher education are connected not only with the potential of subjects of a social and humanitarian cycle, but also with activity of the person in protecting itself from the negative information impact.