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1 Information Weapon: Concepts, Means, Methods …
In addition to significant economic investments, to solve this problem on a national
level, an appropriate reorganization of the education system, science, and change of
public opinion is required to make work in this area prestigious and socially attractive.
Thus, it will be possible to ensure the inflow of human resources and training of the
necessary number of specialists and researchers in this field.
Thus, measures to ensure the information security of the state should be comprehensive, including those of an ideological and educational nature, aimed at an
appropriate orientation of public consciousness.
1.1.5 Information Security Technologies
Despite the evident complexity of protective information technologies, there is
nothing incomprehensible about them. In terms of development, they do not outpace
information technologies, but follow them (Fig. 1.1). For instance, it is hard to
imagine a firewall in a system consisting of separate computers not connected to
each other. Why would anyone need an antivirus in the absence of malicious software? All more or less serious protective information technologies appear only in
response to technological innovations. At the same time, one should understand that
the development of adequate protection for a technological innovation is not mandatory. Such works are carried out only if they are financially viable. For instance, it
is necessary to develop the protective mechanisms for the client-server database of
DBMS, since it directly affects the number of users of this management system.
Fig. 1.1 Dynamics of development of various information security technologies
1 Information Weapon: Concepts, Means, Methods …
In addition to significant economic investments, to solve this problem on a national
level, an appropriate reorganization of the education system, science, and change of
public opinion is required to make work in this area prestigious and socially attractive.
Thus, it will be possible to ensure the inflow of human resources and training of the
necessary number of specialists and researchers in this field.
Thus, measures to ensure the information security of the state should be comprehensive, including those of an ideological and educational nature, aimed at an
appropriate orientation of public consciousness.
1.1.5 Information Security Technologies
Despite the evident complexity of protective information technologies, there is
nothing incomprehensible about them. In terms of development, they do not outpace
information technologies, but follow them (Fig. 1.1). For instance, it is hard to
imagine a firewall in a system consisting of separate computers not connected to
each other. Why would anyone need an antivirus in the absence of malicious software? All more or less serious protective information technologies appear only in
response to technological innovations. At the same time, one should understand that
the development of adequate protection for a technological innovation is not mandatory. Such works are carried out only if they are financially viable. For instance, it
is necessary to develop the protective mechanisms for the client-server database of
DBMS, since it directly affects the number of users of this management system.
Fig. 1.1 Dynamics of development of various information security technologies