The structure of the journal includes 6 headings reflecting the current trends in the field of research on security issues in the information field:

• Technical means and methods of information protection (issues of technical protection of information and information security of objects, automated systems and communication systems, the results of developments and experience in the use of new hardware and software, hardware information protection facilities, information security facilities, for possible information leakage, etc.)
  • Computer security (issues of information protection in computer systems, virology, the results of development and experience in the use of new means of protecting information from unauthorized access, software tools to ensure the integrity and availability of information, guaranteed destruction of information, etc.)
  • Mathematical methods in ensuring information security (issues of developing algorithms and methods for cryptographic protection of information, identifying, identifying and classifying threats to information security breaches, assessing the security of information and information security of facilities, forming complexes of countermeasures to information security threats, etc.)
  • Organizational and organizational and technical protection of information (issues of organization of audit and monitoring of the state of objects, management of information security of objects, the results of scientific and technical and economic research of problems of information protection in modern conditions, experience in developing and applying technical means of training information security professionals, work experience security services and training for them)
  • Legal regulation of information protection (issues of protection of state, commercial, professional, official secrets, intellectual property, personal data, etc., discussion of drafts and newly published regulatory legal and methodological documents regulating information protection activities)
  • Actual problems of cybersecurity (issues of information security of industrial automated systems and facilities, protection of key information infrastructure systems of critical facilities)
  • The direction of the journal fully corresponds to the scientific specialty
  • 05.13.19 Methods and systems of information security, information security
  and the direction of training of scientific and pedagogical staff in postgraduate study • 10.06.01 Information security
  
  The articles published in the journal are also taken into account by the Higher Attestation Commission for the following groups of specialties of scientific workers:
  • 05.12.00 Radio engineering and communication (05.00.00 Engineering)
  • 05.13.00 Computer Science, Computer Science and Management (05.00.00 Engineering Sciences)
  • 01.01.00 Mathematics (01.00.00 Physics and Mathematics)
  • 01.04.00 Physics (01.00.00 Physics and Mathematics)
  • 12.00.00 Juridical sciences