A discourse analysis of scientific sources on the study of mechanisms for implementing state policy in the field of information security. The peculiarities of the effective legal mechanism of interaction of public authorities on ensuring information security in the state and coordination of their activity are determined. The characteristic features of the functioning of the national security system in the field of information support are considered, the main interrelations of its key components are determined.
The opinion is proved that the state-legal mechanism of public administration in the field of ensuring the security of the information space of the state acts as a holistic system of public authorities and special institutions that outline the legal field in this area and effectively regulate economic, financial, economic and social relations. between subjects in the field of information space security and information data protection.
It is noted that the organizational and legal mechanism of public administration in the field of information security of the state provides an opportunity to coordinate the development of legal framework in accordance with modern progress and development of information technology in the world, as well as creating an algorithm for public authorities to implement effective state policy in the field of information security of the state, taking into account the necessary resources and by exercising the function of control over their use.
It is noted that information security in Europe is provided on the principle of two levels: at the national and intergovernmental levels. It is noted that the European Union implements information security at the level of two independent political and managerial courses: security of government-financial and private-public administration and the use of political mechanisms of information-protective and public-administrative responses to cybercrime. At the same time, the European Commission substantiates the concept of network and information security through the prism of confronting accidental threats or harmful actions that prevent the integrity, reality and accessibility of digital data. It is noted that it is important for Ukraine to combine common law, scientific and sectoral approaches to standardization in the field of information security by the given example. This will improve the relationship between government at all levels and enable them to work effectively.
The peculiarities of institutional and legal mechanisms for the implementation of state policy in the field of information security in the EU countries are analyzed and the prospects for their implementation in Ukraine are determined. A conceptual model of improving the state policy in the field of information security has been developed, the implementation of which consists of six consecutive steps: comprehensive formation of the idea of data protection, protection of private rights and monitoring of the Internet space; ensuring the interests of Internet providers, public-private sector users; constructions of an integral structure of the Internet policy of the state; minimization of violations in the field of cyberspace and reducing the number of data thefts of various levels of importance; cooperation of representatives of business, population and providers for effective, comprehensive counteraction to information threats on the Internet; ensuring an equal percentage of participation of civil society, government and government in the development and separation of a single government concept, which will allow to respond quickly to Internet factors that cause digital attacks, etc.
Keywords: public administration mechanisms, information and security policy, European Union, cybercrime, use of computer networks, Internet factors, information data protection.
