Cybersecurity and modern forms of interstate confrontation

In recent years, the sphere of confrontation has signifi cantly expanded due to the increasing share of political and diplomatic, economic, information, cybernetic, psychological means and methods of implementing political goals in international confrontation. The author declares that today information and communication technologies are often used to interfere in the internal aff airs of sovereign states, and the goal of destabilizing the socio-political situation in the state is to generate protest potential in society and create a political singularity, which leads to the infl ation of power in this country and its discredit. The article deals with modern forms of interstate confrontation with the use of violent changes in the global political landscape using the capabilities of modern information and communication technologies. It is emphasized that the global confrontation has acquired a permanent character and periodically escalates to extremely dangerous levels when using hybrid forms of confrontation between states and their coalitions. The author notes that in the modern world, the use of innovative, and fi rst of all, information and communication technologies, for violent infl uence on the opposing side, has accelerated unprecedented. It is shown that in recent years, the world economy has been constantly tested by sanctions wars, and the sanctions war is mostly understood as the introduction of a regime of economic sanctions against a state in circumvention of international law, that is, outside the procedure provided for and defi ned by the UN, and the postulate of forcibly reshaping the world political landscape with a noble goal leads only to increased confrontation and confrontation. The article identifi es the current problem areas and threats that are already being implemented today and those that are possible in the future with the development of information and communication technologies.