Legal Issues of Information Security of Public Authorities in Ukraine and the European Union: Experience and Realities

The topic of information security of public administration, and, in particular,
of public authorities, is relevant all over the world. Modern public administration
becomes vulnerable without ensuring an adequate level of information security on a par with the level of military equipment. The article shows that the high rates of the formation of the global information space and the informatization of all spheres of society's life have created the prerequisites for the intensive use of the information sphere for the implementation of public administration, and at the same time for the emergence of new threats to the information security of states. The steady growth of these threats necessitates the improvement of doctrinal approaches to ensuring national security in the information sphere, in particular, in the field of legal support.
Generalization of the practice of creating a system of legal regulation of information security and scientific and practical research of the problems arising in this area showed numerous shortcomings associated with the lack of sufficient theoretical foundations of legal support for information security.