Provision of information-psychological security in open information systems

Providing information and psychological security in open information systems is an urgent requirement of our days. And every state thinks about it. This is due to a new global geopolitical situation, the emergence of new regional conflict points, the activation of terrorist movements, the growing resistance to nationalism, chauvinism, religious extremism, the growing threat of an ecological catastrophe, and the spread of various epidemiological diseases.

In open information systems, the term "information" denotes a socially significant message for the orientation of a person, social groups, society as a whole in the surrounding world, and for the establishment of spiritual values determined by the social nature of a given society.

Open information systems are information agencies, newspapers, magazines, journal-type publications, other printed products, radio, television, audio and video products, the Internet, press services, public relations structures of state, public and other organizations and agencies, advertising agency.

The mass media are periodic press, audio-visual media, information agencies, Internet journalism. The media are an important part of open information systems.

Information confrontation is the desire to influence the audience by imposing their views, opinions, visions in relation to certain phenomena of the surrounding reality and ignoring the ideas and positions of opponents.

Information-psychological warfare is the interaction of information services and subversive services with the aim of loosening the social foundations prevailing in another country or group of countries, disintegrating public morals, disrupting national development programs and direct export of their values and their way of life.

Installation is - a psychological state of the individual's readiness for a certain form of response (perception, attitude), including the incoming information. The psychological setting is formed in the context of the adoption of certain decisions. This takes into account both the specific situation and the various factors that accompany it.

Information manipulation is the use of information tools for psychological impact on the mass consciousness with the purpose of affirming certain values. At the same time, recipients, as a rule, do not realize what is the object of such an impact, even if it is directed directly against their interests.

The concept of national information security includes the security of the individual, society, state.

The safety of the individual is understood: the impossibility of inflicting harm on him as an individual whose social activity is largely based on the comprehension of the information received, and information interactions with other individuals.

Information security of the society consists in impossibility of harming its spiritual, economic, political sphere, cultural values, social regulators of people's behavior, information infrastructure and messages transmitted with it.

Information security of the state consists in the impossibility of harming the state's activities in performing the functions of managing the affairs of society, the subject of which is the information and information infrastructure of the society.

The threat is a way of resolving the contradiction between the objects of interaction by causing harm with the purpose of violently changing the properties towards the deterioration of one of the objects.1

Under the sources of threats to the interests of the individual and society in the information sphere, one should understand the restriction in ensuring the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen to access to open information, to use information to carry out activities not prohibited by law, as well as information providing personal security, spiritual and intellectual development. In addition, the most dangerous source of threats to these personal interests is the expansion of the ability to manipulate consciousness through the formation of an individual "virtual information space", as well as the possibility of using technology to influence his psychological activities.

One of the other sources of threats to the interests of society in the information sphere is the complexity of information systems and communication networks, critical infrastructure for ensuring the life of society. These threats can be manifested in the form of deliberate or unintentional errors, failures and failures of technology and software, the harmful impact on these infrastructures by criminal communities and criminal elements.

Another source of threats is the concentration of media in the hands of a small group of owners. These threats can lead to the manipulation of public opinion in relation to certain socially significant events, as well as the destruction of the moral foundations of society by imposing alien values upon it.2

A dangerous source of state interests in the information sphere is the proliferation of "information weapons" and the deployment of an "arms race" in this field. These threats can be manifested in the form of obtaining unlawful access to information constituting state secrets to other confidential information, the disclosure of which may damage the interests of the state.

In fact, the threats are different: the damage done to a person and the state, internal and external, large and small, distant and close, political, military, economic, cultural, environmental, national and others.

Information threat in ensuring public policy. The most dangerous information threats are those that threaten state policy. As the threat to the individual affects a narrow circle of people, and the threat to society or the state is the whole country, the whole people. This is a very big and serious problem, which is why she studies this subject from different points of view.

Threats to improving the country's information: providing the domestic market with information; use, as well as the collection of information technology and resources. One of the best ways to combat information danger is to provide the state with information of itself. Of course, such information must be complete, qualitative and reliable, or the members of the society will increasingly become more interested in addressing foreign sources and who will not be able to prevent it. In principle, it is not so difficult to provide the internal territory of the country with information, as information technologies are very widely used today, and you can quickly get any information from anywhere in the world and also quickly spread it inside the country. But only thus it is impossible to be indifferent and to let things go on their own. Since human psychology is peculiar to fill in the received incomplete information with various inventions and gossip.