Analysis of the Problems of Ensuring Information Security in the Terms of the Contemporary Society

Abstract

The article analyzes the domestic and foreign experience of information security in today’s society. The peculiarities of the research are analyzing the process of information security from the point of two sociological paradigms: structural-functional and interpretive. The process of informatization in the society is one of the key factors of its development. This article analyzes the establishment of an information society. The article analyzes the process of informatization, which is to facilitate the survival of humanity and set it on the path of sustainable development. Owing to that fact, the problem of information security is attracting increasing interest; it is assuming primary importance among the rest of security types. This problem is investigated with the following methods. First, we reveal the nature of information security, its forms, and content within the framework of the modern information society. Second, we define the possible ways information security affects the development of society.