Cryptocontainer’s Active Protection as an Element of Countering the Passive Collection of Personal Data

• Main Author: V. A. Kourbatski
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Establishment «The Main Information and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus» 2019-05-01
• Series: Цифровая трансформация
• Subjects: personal information security; personal information space; cryptocontainer; digital footprint; secure platform
• Online Access: https://dt.giac.by/jour/article/view/124

The article is devoted to the study of the problems of personal information security, taking into account the impact of Big data in the current crisis of information security. A person is rapidly immersed in cyberspace, conducts business in it, conducts financial operations, actively receives educational and other social services. These processes lead to the formation of a digital footprint. The article considers the phenomenon of the digital footprint appearance and the processes associated with it. In particular, considered the formation of a new symbolic environment. The cryptocontainer, complex information protection software, was designed and developed as a result of the actual personal information security problems analysis and as a part of the secure platform creation initiative. Its principles are discussed in this article. An alternative approach to providing information security was proposed, taking into account the personal information space.