THE STATE AND TRENDS OF CYBERSECURITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – ANALYSIS OF CURRENT THREATS AND PROTECTION MEASURES

Abstract

The article emphasizes that cyberattacks are becoming increasingly widespread and dangerous in today’s world of information technology. They can lead to serious consequences for organizations and individuals, including personal data theft, financial losses, confidentiality breaches, disruption of business processes, and even threats to national security. To protect against cyberattacks, it is necessary to use modern security methods and preventive measures. This includes regularly updating software and antivirus programs, training organizational staff in information security, using multifactor authentication, and data encryption. Information security is a key issue in the modern world, and it is important to take all necessary measures to protect oneself and one’s organization from cyber threats. Mathematical support for such systems includes models of attack processes on defense mechanisms and blocking or eliminating cyber threats. A model for sets of information protection processes with complete threat coverage is described. It is generalized that the information security and cybersecurity system is a complex combination of software, cryptographic, organizational, and other means, methods, and measures designed to protect information and cybersecurity. Cybersecurity at the state level should rely on the implementation of functions of state authorities responsible for national cybersecurity, the implementation of strategies, national policies, and modern effective cyber defense tools. It is concluded that among the priority tasks facing Ukrainian state institutions in ensuring information and digital sovereignty are: automatic monitoring of their information space; implementation of legislation on liability for content; implementation of legislation regulating internet content filtering; prevention of the use of advanced information technologies for the dissemination of socially harmful ideas and calls.