HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROBLEM OF INFORMATION SECURITY

Abstract

The authors make an attempt of understanding philosophical and methodological approaches to explicating the problem of information security. The authors study the development of the category “information security” in philosophic researches from antiquity to the beginning of XXI century in the context of understanding security. The article analyzes some present-day conceptions of information security. Attention is given to interrelation between information security and the notion of information war.