Russian approach to the formation of the space of collective information security of the BRICS countries

Abstract

The article devotes to the exploration of the principles, directions, forms and methods of the creation of common area of collective security among BRICS member states in the information field. The goal of creating such a space of collective security is the joint opposition to new challenges and threats in the information sphere, such as cybercrime, information terrorism and extremism, information warfare operations, with which each of the countries included in the BRICS alone cannot cope today. The basis for creating such a space and a system providing its information security at a level that meets the national interests of the BRICS countries is the common for all these countries the need to counter transnational cybercrime and to repel information warfare operations organized by foreign opponents and BRICS competitors. In this regard the author investigates the experience to counteract such new challenges and threats as cybercrimes, information terrorism and extremism. The paper notes that no one of BRICS countries individually is able to cope with these problems. One of such bodies may be the international cyberpolicy BRICS, endowed with operational and investigative functions. The author shows the expediency of forming a system of supranational bodies BRICS which are responsible for ensuring the information security of BRICS as a whole and the reflection of information warfare operations, in particular. In this regard, such a system of bodies can be organized, using the experience of the creation and functioning of relevant supranational bodies of the European Union.