Information Component of Terrorist Threat: Legal Fixing

The article is devoted to studies legal fixing of information component of terrorist threat in nationwide level legal acts of Ukraine. Analyzed the National Security Strategy of Ukraine 2020, Concept of Development of Security And Defense Sector of Ukraine 2016, Strategy of Cybersecurity of Ukraine 2016, the project of the new Strategy of Cybersecurity of Ukraine 2021–2025, the Counter-Terrorism Concept of the Ukraine 2019 and the Action Plan of the implementation of the Counter-Terrorism Concept of the Ukraine. It is noted that realization of the terrorist threat in the information sphere may be turned out by : the socially dangerous activity in cyberspace for terrorist purpose; armed forces` activity in interaction with organized crime groups with the using of the means of terrorism as a reveal of hybrid war; using the modern information and communication technologies for conducting terrorist acts by the intrusion to the automated control systems of the technological processes in the critical infrastructure facilities; implementation of acts of cyberterrorism in relation to the information infrastructure; using the cyberspace by the terrorist organizations and for the terrorism` financing; conducting the acts of cyber terrorism against information infrastructure. On the nationwide level it is fixed the priority objects of the terrorist cyberattacks (nuclear power facilities, power supply management systems, storages of strategic types of raw materials, water supply systems, chemical and biological objects).