Risk-minimizing social practices in ensuring information security

Abstract

Modern society qualifies not only as a society of knowledge and information, but also as a society of risk, threats, danger. The digital society is in a state of turbulence, which is interpreted by the individual as an increase in risks. Risk and digital reality are two markers of the society of the XXI century. In the context of the formation of a digital «risk society» within the framework of socio-humanitarian discourse, the task of developing an approach to information security capable of adapting a person to avalanche-like increasing risks is actualized. Turning to risk-minimizing practices helps to organize the process of ensuring information security, taking into account the real significance of emerging dangers and threats in the information and communication environment. The article defines and systematizes a cluster of concepts describing the phenomenon of digital risk and information security as part of such concepts: object (object) — danger (threat) — damage (harm) — risk — security. This makes it possible to define risk-minimizing practices in the information and communication environment as social practices that, due to unusual actions to reduce, weaken, eliminate and prevent dangers and threats, reduce the level of expectation of their occurrence and form a sense of freedom from the danger of loss; from doubt, anxiety or fear. It is concluded that risk-minimizing practices in the information and communication environment are social practices that, due to unusual actions to reduce, weaken, eliminate and prevent dangers and threats, reduce the level of expectation of their occurrence and form a sense of freedom from the danger (risk) of loss; freedom from doubt, anxiety or fear.