The concept of information as an object of protection
In general, information is knowledge in the broadest sense of the word. Not only educational or scientific knowledge, but information and data that are present in any object and are necessary for the functioning of any information systems (living beings or man-made).
Information as an object of cognition has a number of features:
it is immaterial in nature, displayed as symbols on media;
after recording to the media, the information acquires certain parameters and can be measured in volume;
information recorded on a tangible medium can be stored, processed, and transmitted through various communication channels;
moving along communication lines, information creates physical fields that reflect its content.
During processing, storage, and transmission, information circulates in the information system. The simplest information system consists of a source of information, a communication channel and a recipient of information. It follows from this that it is necessary to equate the protection of information and the protection of the information system.
The simplest information system:
The source is the communication channel – the Recipient.