Forensic ensuring of media security in the digital environment

Introduction: the goal of the study is consideration of the prerequisites to develop media security systems in the digital environment. The author presents their own approach of formation and academic analysis of the categories “media environment”, “digital environment”, and “media security”. For detailed perception the author analyses the diverse of the legal terms relating to the concept of “safety” under public and legal vein (the author gives the correlation with the concepts of "national security" and "information security"). Materials and Methods: the methodological basis of this work was the analytical philosophical tradition. General scientific methods of cognition were applied in this work: analogy, comparison, generalization, etc. Also private scientific methods of cognition were used: there were legal, comparative-historical, comparative-legal methods, etc. Results: the author concluded that informational security is a part of the overall system of the national security and represents safety of the information space while its type (media safety) connected to the part of information space (mediaspace) within information is disseminated through the means of mass communication (including mass media). The author also considered confluence of media space and digital space resulting from digitalization resulting from the adoption of electronic technologies and means of communications. Discussion and Conclusions: the author defines the need to elaborate the theory of expert support for media security (including digital area), of using specific knowledge through various experts participation (including experts of the class of forensic speech experts) as individuals whose involvement in media security in the digital environment is most desirable because of the characteristics of information media products.