FEATURES AND CONSEQUENCES OF MANIFESTATION OF INFORMATION RISKS AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Abstract

Abstract. The article is devoted to the risk analysis associated with the use of information and
information technologies. Activation and deployment of “digital transformation programs” are
accompanied by the emergence of new or unfamiliar challenges and threats; they have a significant
negative impact on all aspects of society and are called as “information risks”. It has been shown that any
modern entity with social and economic relations provides a wide range of information risks. The purpose
of the research is to identify and substantiate the existing problems of qualitative analysis of the
emergence and consequences of global information risks, as well as to develop recommendations for
their solution. The analysis of different views according to the problems of global risks has been given.
The analysis gives an opportunity to offer a separate group of “global information risks” from a part of
global risks. It is shown that this can be determined by: causes and peculiarities of their occurrence and
emergence; specific activities in order to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence; exclusion, or mitigation
of negative effects of their occurrence; specific requirements for the category, staff and competency of
managers who should deal with global information risk management. Recommendations have been
offered in order to supplement the existing global risks with a separate group - global information risks
and to the list of risks such as “massive fraud and data theft”, “large-scale cyber attacks”, “destruction of
critical information infrastructure and networks”. It is necessary to add “global content risks”, “risk of
privacy loss (for state and private sectors)”, as well as “risk of confidence loss in the media (sources of
information)”. Features of these risks emergence have been considered.