Assessment of information and telecommunication networks stability in terms of informational influence

The article describes the methodology of assessing telecommunication networks stability in terms of informational influence. In modern warfare conditions, the systems of monitoring the enemy are primary objects of combat along with troops and weapons. The projected impact of the enemy on the military administration and information-telecommunications network as its technical foundation, introduces new requirements for indicators of quality of functioning. The use of foreign technologies, communications and software in telecommunications network determined the shift of emphasis on achieving superiority over the enemy through the use of computer attacks. The result of the impact of computer attacks is blocking management information and the introduction of false information, violation of the established regulations for the collection, processing and transfer of information, equipment failures, failures in the information and telecommunications network, as well as the compromise of transmitted (received) information. According to foreign experts, the impact of computer attack is comparable to the effect of the use of weapons of mass destruction. The developed method allows assessing the influence of probability impact on the function of distributing time of applying means of impact on information and telecommunication network, i.e. the probability that at any moment the network will be inoperable.