The activities of the media in the context of information security

The article considers the relationship between the activities of the media and ensuring the information security of states based on the analysis of the legislation of the EAEU member states and international experience. This issue is at the intersection of politics and law, in this regard, there was studied the work of political scientists and legal scholars. On the one hand, the article considers the information security of states in the implementation of the media in details and possible infringements of freedom of speech and the press while observing information security. The author proposes to increase the level of freedom of the media in compliance with the basic principles of ensuring the country’s information security. The subject of the study was the norms of national and foreign legislation, doctrinal opinions of domestic and foreign scientists. During the study there were used methods of specific informational, logical and statistical analysis. In the article, the author proposes a definition of information security, expanding its concept in program documents, and makes a proposal to revise some provisions of national legislation in the field of freedom of journalists.