Information security in modern society: Sociocultural aspects

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to study the major conceptual socio-cultural features of the essence and ensuring the information security in an information society. The research methodology is based on a complex combination of philosophical (dialectical, hermeneutical) and scientific methods to study the problem of security in modern society, and especially empirical, comparative, analytical and descriptive. They are based on the principles of consistency and historicity that allows exploring contemporary socio-cultural processes and phenomena in the dynamics and in connection with the historical conditions of their development as well as with the security issues.  The scientific novelty of the work is in revealing key aspects of understanding the essence and ensuring the information security, in defining the most significant features in conditions of the the information society. Conclusions. Ensuring the information security in modern society depends on many factors, including how a person will behave in this or that stressful situation. The key risks factors for the information subsystem of the society are large-scale socio-communicative and socio-cultural transformations, which carry a number of negative social consequences. In recent years, disorganizing and dysfunctional trends, directly related to the high speed of information change are clearly recorded. The traditional practice of information security and security against the information become more complex due to the development of virtual social reality of cyberspace. Modern communication processes lead to the information redundancy and enhance the "fissure" between the virtual and real worlds, which affects the growth of the conventions of network practices of the information security. The overabundance of low quality information, which is observed at this stage of development of the information society is not the only problem of the information security. The problem of forming the appropriate level of information culture that would prevent the emergence of her stressful situations when working with information and information technology is also among such issues. Information security in the information society is the protection of information and protection against the information. Ensuring the information security is a necessity, which becomes an attribute of modern life of any social entity, and requires a tireless work with the information that involves interaction with a variety of expert systems, the delocalization of actions, ensuring freedom and minimizing risks.