IMPROVED METHOD OF ASSESSING DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF UKRAINE IN CASE OF LEAKAGE OF STATE SECRETS

Abstract

The intensification of military and terrorist threats leads to the constant updating and modernization of the state system for the protection of restricted access information for any country in the world. With the beginning of military aggression on the territory of Ukraine, its system for the protection of state secrets is constantly under the influence of significant risks of the threat of leakage of secret information, especially in the military sphere. The consequences of the occupation of the territory of its individual regions, the capture of citizens who have access to state secrets and/or the destruction of critical infrastructure facilities that are subjects of regime-secret activities, create the need to determine the amount of damage caused to the national security of Ukraine in the event of the disclosure of state secrets or the loss of material carriers of secret information. The implementation of this task is entrusted to the state expert on secrets, who prepares a conclusion on the amount of such damage. It is obvious that for the efficiency of its preparation, an automated workplace with appropriate methodological and software support is necessary. The existing methodological recommendations to state experts on secrets regarding the determination of the grounds for classifying information as a state secret and the degree of their secrecy and the previously developed method of analysis and assessment of the amount of possible damage to the national security of the state in the field of state secret protection do not take into account the actual data regarding the above-mentioned challenges, and therefore require improvement. Unlike the existing one, the improved method proposed in the work for assessing the damage to the national security of Ukraine in the event of a leak of a state secret based on an updated and supplemented set of parameters from the report on the state of ensuring the protection of state secrets for a subject of regime-secret activity, criteria for determining the degree of secrecy of information constituting a state secret, assessment of the reduction in the efficiency of the object of use of this information, including classification of levels of terrorist threats etc., has the ability to assess the amount of total damage caused, obtained by the value of economic damage and damage from other serious consequences, calculated separately in the event of disclosure of a state secret and/or loss of material carriers of classified information. Approbation of the work of the improved method was carried out for each parameter on the example of a specific individual subject based on conditional data of its report on the state of state secret protection. The obtained value of the magnitude of this damage both for such an individual subject and for all other such subjects of regime-secret activity according to the generalized report, where a state secret was leaked, makes it possible to further calculate the generalized magnitude of the total damage to the national security of Ukraine and assess the consequences of its impact on the sphere of state secret protection for the country as a whole.