Methods of legal regulation of the security of the individual, society, state in the information sphere

Information factor is an important component of social development, as it performs organizational and managerial and regulatory oversight functions in the modern information society. Therefore, the main purpose of the article is to analyse the methods of legal regulation of security of a person, society, state in the information sphere. The paper proposes a scientific hypothesis on the division of the subject of legal regulation of the security of a person, society, state into three aspects: information security, classified information security and cybersecurity. Legal regulation of information security relations is aimed at counteracting the negative information impact in the information space of the state, normalizing relations in terms of security of classified information to establish organizational and legal regime, to provide access to information, etc., and regulation of cybersecurity relations is connected with detection, prevention and neutralization of real and potential threats to critical information infrastructure facilities. Upon ensuring the information security of the individual, society and the state, the dispositive method of legal regulation prevails, although further reinforcement of imperative regulation of issues of ensuring the security of the person, society and the state with regard to combating misinformation as a type of information offense is presumed. Legal regulation of the security of classified information is ensured through the imperative method of legal regulation, and the dispositive method of legal regulation in the circulation of classified information is used in the part of collecting and disseminating publicly required information. Public relations regarding cybersecurity are governed by the imperative method of legal regulation, although with regard to normalization of public-private partnership matters, a conclusion is made on the necessity of application of dispositive method of legal regulation exclusively