The article is devoted to the analysis of the United Nations current work in the field of creating legal regulation of international information security. The article substantiates the consideration of these issues namely at the UN platform which is connected with the severity of possible consequences of the use of force by states in response to the reflection of a cyber threat emanating from another state. The article provides an analysis of the current UN approach to the discussion and establishment of regulation of international information security issues. The article discusses the documents of the UN General Assembly adopted at the third stage of the organization’s regulatory development of international information relations. A comparative analysis of the two “cyber resolutions” of the UN General Assembly, adopted in December 2018, is given separately. The conducted research proves the conclusion that the current state of regulation of international information security refers to the stage of “soft law” formation. At the same time, the argument that states have no contradictions in their understanding of the development of international law in the study area is refuted. As a result, the article infers that the lack of more decisive actions on the part of the United Nations will strengthen the tendency towards its gradually declining role in regulating this issue and will probably lead to intercepting the initiative by regional organizations. To solve this problem, it was proposed to expand the working mechanisms by including an expert community in this process and starting work on “hard law”.

cybersecurity, United Nations, Group of Governmental Experts, cyber threats, soft law

Sidorova Tatyana Yurievna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, Law Institute, Siberian Federal University (79, Svobodny av., Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russian Federation), e-mail: sidorova@sfu-kras.ru

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