About the Journal

Scientific Profile of the Journal

By its purpose, the journal is a professional scientific journal in the specialisations: 125 — Cybernetics, 081 — Law, 251 — State Security, 262 — Law Enforcement Activity.

The thematic scope of the journal covers the dissemination of information on the results of research work concerning legal, theoretical and organisational foundations of ensuring information security; forms and methods of ensuring information security; threats to information security in the modern world; theoretical, legal and organisational foundations of the system of protection of the information space of the state; countering information-psychological influence; legal and organisational foundations of using communication channels for the purpose of carrying out information influence to protect the national interests of the state; international experience in the field of ensuring information security; information warfare as a current threat to state security; public relations as the foundation of information-communicative interaction between the state, society and the individual.

Focus and Scope

1. Theoretical and methodological foundations of ensuring information security of the person, society and state.
2. International experience in the field of ensuring information security of the person, society and state.
3. State policy of Ukraine in the sphere of ensuring information security of the person, society and state.
4. Forms, methods and means of detecting, evaluating and forecasting threats to the information security of Ukraine.
5. Scientific and methodological apparatus for evaluating the effectiveness of ensuring information security.
6. Methods, means and measures of ensuring information-psychological security of the person, society and state.
7. Methods, means and measures of organisational and legal protection of restricted information.
8. Methods, means and measures of technical and cryptographic protection of information.
9. Organisational, legal and technical issues of combating cybercrime.
10. Methodologies, technologies, models and programmes of training, retraining and professional development in the sphere of information security.

Open Access Policy

This journal practises a policy of immediate open access to published content, supporting the principles of free dissemination of scientific information and global knowledge sharing for the benefit of overall public progress.

Submission Policy

1. Articles are submitted to the editorial team only in electronic form via the journal's website http://inf-bez.nasbu.edu.ua or by email [email protected].
2. Authors register on the website.
3. Reviewing is carried out via the journal's website.
4. The submission file is a Microsoft Word or LibreOffice document (file format *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf, *.odt).
5. Articles are accepted on a continuous basis; articles that do not make the next issue are reviewed and queued for the following issue.

Basic Requirements for Manuscript Preparation

• Authors submit articles with research results that have scientific and practical significance and have not been published in other publications.
• Scholarly articles are submitted with accompanying documents (two reviews (signed by reviewers), an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the structural unit, and an act on the results of expert evaluation of material information carriers establishing that the prepared material information carrier (manuscript) does not contain information constituting state secret or official information in the system of the Security Service of Ukraine (the act is prepared only by SSU staff)).
• Materials should be submitted printed on A4 paper, 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman 14 font, with margins: left, top, bottom — 20 mm, right — 15 mm.
• The total length of a scholarly article should be no less than 10 pages.
• An electronic version of the text file is mandatory and must fully match the printed version of the article.
• The structure of the scholarly article must include the following elements: UDC index; journal section; author's (authors') surname, first name, patronymic; academic degree, academic title, position and place of work without abbreviations; abstract and keywords (in English and Russian); abstract in English of not less than 2,500 characters, including keywords, accompanied by a Ukrainian translation, indicating the title, surname and initials of the author, academic title, and position. The text must reflect the main content of the article and the research results.
• The text of the scholarly article must be structured as follows: problem statement; analysis of recent research and publications; aim; presentation of the main material; conclusions; list of references.

Peer Review Process

All articles undergo three stages of review:

• Stage I — compliance with the journal's requirements
• Stage II — plagiarism check
• Stage III — double-blind peer review

• A reviewer may be a member of the Editorial Board or an authorised expert in the field of information security.
• The Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor appoint reviewers.
• Blind review means that neither the author nor the reviewer knows each other's names; all correspondence between authors and reviewers is conducted through the editorial team.
• Results following review of the article are submitted to the Editorial Board (in a report on a form specifically approved by the Editor-in-Chief).
• The reviewer's report is advisory in nature; the final decision on publication is made by the Editorial Board.
• An author may disagree with the reviewer's opinion and send a substantiated response to the editorial team.
• If necessary, the author is sent comments and a deadline by which corrections are accepted.
• In the case of a negative review of the manuscript, a substantiated rejection review is sent to the author.

Publication Frequency

• First issue — by 31 March;
• Second issue — by 30 June;
• Third issue — by 30 September.

Journal History

The journal was founded by the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine in 2008 and is published 3 times a year.