Features of Ensuring Cybersecurity of the Critical Infrastructure of the State

Abstract

One of the most important tasks of national security in modern conditions is to ensure the security and stable functioning of critical infrastructure of the state. Control systems are an integral and most vulnerable part of critical infrastructure facilities. This determines the importance of ensuring they are protected from destructive cyber actions. Destructive cyber actions in it is accompanied, as a rule, by chain effects and synergistic effects that systematically influence and cover all other spheres of the life of society and the state, both in ordinary and, especially, in critical conditions. The authors systematically and comprehensively analyzed and presented in the article the results of investigations of the features of destructive cyber actions in the critical infrastructure of state, counteracting them and protecting from them.