Current issues of forensic support of investigation of crimes against information security of the state

Abstract

The problems of forensic support for the investigation of crimes against the information security of Ukraine are considered. The main problems arising in the practice of their pre-trial investigation are identified. It is emphasized that the aggressor country’s build-up of reconnaissance, subversive, terrorist and other illegal activities against Ukraine, the waging of an aggressive war, including information warfare, imposes on the bodies and divisions of the Security Service the task of protecting its information sphere. Attention is drawn to the fact that modern criminology acutely responds to all the needs of practice related not only to the fight against crime, but also to other illegal challenges of our time, and its methods and means become an important arsenal and effective tools in the work of operational and investigative units. There is difficulty in identifying and investigating such crimes, which is largely due to the electronic form of the subject of the attack, the instruments of the crime, as well as the traces and other evidence they leave. An important issue is the search for places of creation and storage of evidentiary information, its physical media, ways of transmission to users, methods and consequences of use, destruction, modification. The article discusses the forensic essence of the concept of crimes against the information security of the state. It is substantiated that they should be considered those in the subject and in the elements of the method of implementation of which the properties of the processes, methods and means of creating, converting digital information, as well as knowledge