EU POLICY WITHIN THT BASIC GLOBAL CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION (CYBER) SECURITY

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29038/2524-2679-2021-03-144-168

Keywords:

cybersecurity, international policy, European Union

Abstract

This study identifies the specifics of the European Union's cyber security policy in terms of dominant approaches to information (cyber) security policy. 
EU information security and infrastructure security policy has been examined in conjunction with the dominant approaches, demonstrated today by the main stakeholders in cyberspace development. These approaches are two concepts that differ mainly in views on Internet governance, national sovereignty over cyberspace, and the principled position on the need to form a special domain in the field of international law to cover cyber security issues. On the world stage, Russia and China are key followers and promoters of the idea of sovereign management of cyberspace resources and Internet governance, as well as the formation of a special legal regime for international information security. They are opposed by the United States and a number of democracies in the West. 

This study analyzes the main strategic documents of the secondary law of the European Union in the field of information security and network security in order to identify compliance with one of the approaches. The study reviews and discusses in detail The EU's Cybersecurity Strategy in the Digital Decade, adopted in late 2020, and related documents. We also determined the proximity of the European Union's approaches to the Western model of information (cyber) security and analyzed how cyber security is being promoted in the world. We also considered the initiatives of the member states of the European Union to actively influence the course of international cooperation in this area, in particular, taking into account the events and trends related to the activities of leading actors at the UN level. 
As a result, we can conclude that the EU policy in the field of information (cyber) security is becoming more defined and that the EU's constructive position on this issue is being actively promoted on the world stage. 

The article was prepared within the framework of the project "EU Studies at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University" of the European Union program ERASMUS + in the direction of Jean Monnet Chair (№ 611478-EPP-1-2019-1-UA-EPPJMO-CHAIR).
 

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Published

2021-10-27