Research the problem of using electronic signature to protect information with limited assess

Abstract

The rapid development of electronic document management systems in the world creates real prospects for a complete abandonment of the use of paper documents.
Currently, electronic document management systems are successfully operating in Ukraine, in which open information is processed. This is facilitated by the presence of a valid legislative framework. At the same time, the development of electronic document management systems containing information with limited access is hampered by the incompleteness of the legislative basis.
The purpose of the article is to present the main results of research work aimed at identifying problematic issues regarding the standardization of the use of electronic signatures to protect electronic documents containing information with limited access, processed in information and communication systems.
In order to eliminate fragmentation and complete the development of the legislative framework regulating electronic document flow containing information with limited access, it is proposed:
1) to develop a draft Procedure for the provision and use of electronic identification services and electronic trust services provided using information and communication systems when processing official information and information constituting a state secret, to approve it by departmental order and to coordinate it with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine);
2) create (for several interested state bodies) experimental sections of the ICS for processing electronic documents containing official and secret information, and, in the process of comprehensive testing, investigate their operability, challenges in developing security profiles, possibilities of obtaining certificates, etc.
3) amend the Law of Ukraine “On Electronic Identification and Electronic Trust Services”, as well as a number of regulatory legal acts regulating the handling of paper secret documents, providing for the concept of “electronic secret document” in them.