The legal policy of foreign countries in the field of counteraction to crime committed with the use of information technologies

The article provides a comparative analysis of the approaches of different countries to the issues of combating crimes committed using information technology. The relevance of such studies is due to a number of factors, including the increase in the number of computer crimes, the complexity of the legal regulation of the information space, the possibility of borrowing proven legal structures, etc. The methodological basis of the study is the comparative legal method. The article identifies promising areas for improving the legal system (further development of the terminological apparatus, clarified the composition of computer crimes in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the formation is proposed of a new Doctrine of information security (taking into account the experience of Singapore), the creation of special response teams to cyber incidents, the introduction of legislative assigned obligations for organizations to notify relevant authorities about computer incidents, etc.).