The article examines the peculiarities of the formation, development and functioning of information security in the practice of the leading countries of the world, as one of the key legal mechanisms for the implementation of e-government. International information security is studied as one of the key aspects of the international security system, along with its main elements and models of the global information security system. Modern concepts of international information security are analyzed. It was established that the principles of the indivisibility of security and the responsibility of states for their information space should be the basis of the problems of international information security in a broad sense. The main elements and two main approaches to the content of international information security have been studied. Based on the results of analytics research, general models of the global information security system have been defined and analyzed. The practice of formation and development of information security in the USA and in the countries of the European Union, where national security has become the key direction of information security development, has been analyzed. The practice of cooperation of Ukraine in the field of information security with the most influential international organizations was studied. It should be noted that the cross-border nature of threats to information security necessitates the development and implementation of complex efforts to effectively counter them in cooperation with international organizations. It was concluded that the internal and external aspects of international information security are designed to reliably protect the cultural heritage of each individual country of the world, its intellectual property of business entities and citizens, as well as special information constituting state and professional secrets. And also the fact that information security, as a field of legal regulation, a priori cannot develop without taking into account the international legal field and the experience of foreign countries.
informational security, electronic governance, information and communication technologies, system, experience, protection