Ensuring information security of critical infrastructure objects as a component to guarantee Ukraine’s national security

The purpose of the article is to define and justify the conceptual foundations of the implementation of the state policy on ensuring the information security of critical infrastructure objects, as a component of guaranteeing the national security of Ukraine. The methodological basis of the study was a set of general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical-phenomenological, systemic analysis and synthesis, structural-functional, deduction and induction, etc. According to the results of the research: the author's definition of the concepts «information security of critical infrastructure objects of Ukraine» and «threats to information security of critical infrastructure objects of Ukraine» was formulated; the elements of the system of threats to the information security of critical infrastructure objects of Ukraine are identified; the factors leading to the emergence of threats to critical infrastructure objects of Ukraine are singled out and groups of basic measures aimed at countering traditional and new threats to the information security of critical infrastructure objects of Ukraine are formulated.