Valstybės elektroninės informacijos saugos strategija – vienas iš pagrindinių elektroninės informacijos saugos reguliavimo instrumentų: lyginamoji analizė

Abstract

In the light of the analysis of the security of electronic information, Lithuania ranks one of the last positions as far as it concerns the level of the security of electronic information across the EU. Therefore, it is possible to maintain that Lithuania needs special measures (including statutory instruments) with a view of substantially improving the security of electronic information. In 2006 Lithuania adopted a new strategy for the security of electronic information; however, bearing in mind the statistics related to the security of electronic information, it is doubtful whether all key methods and measures for ensuring the security of electronic information have been reckoned with. Some EU Member States and other countries have a more profound experience in the field of ensuring the security of electronic information (e.g. Finland, Czech Republic, Norway). The best practice of these countries is essential for improving the legal basis for the security of electronic information as well as ensuring the enforcement of such security.
The article deals with strategies for the security of electronic information in several European countries in comparison to the new Lithuanian strategy for the security of electronic information. The subject of this article relates to regulation of the security of electronic information taking into account the fact that the strategy for the security of electronic information is one of its key elements. The purpose of this article is to compare and analyze the most advanced strategies of the security of electronic information which are available in some EU Member States and other countries (Finland, Czech Republic, Norway) and provide an assessment of the Lithuanian strategy for the security of electronic information as well as appropriate proposals how to improve the strategy. The methods of comparison and analysis as well as some others have been applied in the article. Databases of legal instruments in foreign countries as well as periodicals have been referred to in order to analyze the strategies for the security of electronic information in the above-referred countries.
The analysis made in the article makes it possible to assert that, notwithstanding the recent adoption (2006), the new Lithuanian strategy for the security of electronic information fails to include some key principles of regulation of the security of electronic information and needs improvements. To this end, different ways and measures how to improve the Lithuanian strategy for the security of electronic information have been specified in this article.