Cyber Security and Cyber Protection: Topics on the Agenda in Ukrainian Society

The aim of the article is to analyse the concepts of «cyber hygiene», «cyber security», «cyber protection», and clarify the role of those processes which are interpreted by these terms in modern human life; to identify the main achievements in Ukrainian law system regarding the legal cybernetic sphere regulation; to highlight key rules for observing cyber hygiene. The research methodology has been implemented using scientific methods of terminological analysis when comparing the definitions of relevant terms. Statistical method has been used in order to generalise quantitative indicators characterising the increase in the interest of higher education establishments in cyber security specialists training. Comparison and generalisation have made it possible to comprehensively reveal the raised problem in this study. The scientific novelty of this research consists in the following: emphasising the cooperation importance and necessity of Ukrainian organisations with foreign partners in the sphere of information protection contained in cyber space; identifying and tracking tendencies in improving cyber security in the context of science, education and state administration. Conclusions. The issue studying of ensuring information cyber protection, as well as cyber security when using Internet and cyber hygiene in Ukraine, has highlighted the vision that Ukrainian specialists have made a significant step forward in these matters. This is confirmed by international statistical data. The analysis of recently adopted legislative, normative legal acts and regulatory documents at the national level has confirmed the thesis that Ukrainian legislation in cyber security issues is gradually reorienting itself to global tendencies, and borrowing positive foreign experience. However, there still exist urgent unresolved problems, the basis of which is the reduction of the conceptual cyber security apparatus to fixed at the legislative level interpretations. The issues of further international cooperation intensification in matters of cyber protection and cyber security, additionally, creation of common interstate platforms for information exchange, are necessary as well. No less important is the development and expansion of educational programmes in speciality 125 «Cyber Security» in higher education establishments of Ukraine. According to the obtained results of this study, the interest in this profession among youth has been growing recently.