SPACE AND TERRESTRIAL CYBER THREATS OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: MEANS OF COGNITION, EVIDENCE, INVESTIGATION

Abstract

Purpose: analysis of the phenomenon of space and ground cyber threats based on the use of the latest means of cognition, proof, investigation. The methodological basis of the research was general scientific methods of cognition, with the help of which the authors solve the issues of cognition, proof, investigation of space electronic crimes committed in cyberspace. Results: the authors emphasize the need for special research on space cybercrime, as such criminogenic phenomena threaten the national security of Ukraine. Discussion: the authors state that the current state of legislation on the prevention and counteraction of space cybercrime is insufficient, and therefore requires the adoption of relevant conventions and laws both at the global level and at the national level. The authors suggest the following:

– to develop interstate standards to ensure the cybersecurity of terrestrial and space cyberspace to guarantee inalienable and inviolable constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen;

– to develop by the UN General Assembly and to adopt a clear and reliable interstate cybersecurity legal framework (UN Convention) of real opportunities for the use of terrestrial and space cyberspace (near and far) and electronic intelligence in educational, scientific and practical activities to prevent and counter cyber threats, cybercrime, cybercalls and cyber hazards;

– to focus the attention of developers of the latest cybersecurity electronic tools, creative methods and grid technologies of electronic intelligence on the need to technologically prevent and counteract possible cyber threats of misuse of outer space and electronic intelligence in various spheres of terrestrial and space life;

– relevant international security organizations, agencies and institutions of the world to develop an orderly legal, organizational and technological system to prevent and combat harmful use of outer space, and electronic intelligence at the national, regional and interstate (global) levels (transboundary, transnational, transcontinental, planetary, space) (near space, far space));

– to create an international association of powerful leading electronic states of the world for the formation, development and implementation of common security standards for the provision of electronic trust services around the globe;

– to ensure the introduction into space of the latest developments in the field of cybersecurity carried out by scientists of the National Aviation University in conjunction with the Institute of Electronic Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the National Space Agency of Ukraine and the law firm AUR-CONSULTING.