Information Component of Terrorist Threat: Legal Confirmation in Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of legal confirmation of information component of terrorist threat in legal acts of Ukraine at the nationwide level.

The article suggests analysis of 2020 National Security Strategy of Ukraine, 2016 Concept of Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine Development, 2016 Strategy of Cybersecurity of Ukraine, the draft of the new Strategy of Cybersecurity of Ukraine for the period of 2021–2025, 2019 Counter-Terrorism Concept of  Ukraine and the Action Plan of Implementation of Counter-Terrorism Concept of Ukraine.

It is noted that the implementation of the terrorist threat in the information sphere is manifested in the form of: socially dangerous activities in cyberspace with a terrorist purpose; collaboration of armed forces with organized crime groups using terrorist means as one of the manifestations of hybrid war; using the modern information and communication technologies for conducting terrorist acts by the intrusion to the automated control systems of the technological processes in the critical infrastructure facilities; using modern information and communications technologies for carrying out terrorist acts by encroaching on the operation of
automated control systems for technological processes at critical infrastructure facilities; using cyberspace by terrorist organizations to finance terrorism; carrying out acts of cyberterrorism against information infrastructure.

At the nationwide level, such category as priority targets for terrorist cyberattacks is distinguished (nuclear power facilities, po­wer supply and transport management systems, large storage facilities for strategic raw materials, water supply systems, chemical and biological facilities).

Key words: anti-terrorist security, terrorist threat, information space, cyberterrorism, information infrastructure.