Basic principles of combating cybercrime: International experience

Abstract

At the current stage of society's development, the importance of innovative processes taking place in our society in connection with global informatization is increasingly felt. But along with positive achievements, informatization is accompanied by side, negative phenomena of a criminogenic nature, which include computer crime. This, of course, requires the immediate creation of a system of combating this type of crime at the state level. For modern society (in the period of its transition from the industrial stage of development to the new one - post-industrial, informational), the relevance of this problem is beyond doubt. According to various expert estimates, worldwide losses from the activities of cybercriminals range from 300 to 800 billion euros annually. At the international level, a number of legal acts recognize that cybercrime threatens not only the national security of individual countries, but also the security of humanity and the international legal order.

For many countries, in particular for Ukraine, cybercrime is a fairly relevant phenomenon, generated by the widespread introduction of modern information and telecommunication technologies into economic processes.The characteristic features of crimes in the field of information and telecommunication technologies are: – the need for wide application of special knowledge in the detection and recording of crime traces in electronic form; – organization and cross-border nature (broad interregional and international connections); - high latency caused by the reluctance of the private sector to inform about such crimes due to distrust in the potential capabilities of law enforcement agencies and reluctance to admit weaknesses in their security systems; - a high level of technical support for offenders.