Information policy as a factor in ensuring national security

Ensuring national security requires the country to form a competent information policy. The importance and specificity of the problem of the formation of national security as well as its important part - information security are caused by the challenges of the modern world. This is due to the fact that at present many of the most important interests of modern society are largely determined by the state of the information sphere surrounding them. This is associated with deliberate or unintended impacts on the information sphere by external or internal sources which can cause serious harm to the interests and constitute a threat to public safety. In recent years a special problem in the field of information support of the society is the development of such a thing as “fake” in the work of the mass media which is also a serious threat both from the side of misinformation of people as well as trust in these mass media. This publication is devoted to the analysis of threats to the information security of society as well as the preparation of recommendations on the formation of state information policy.