Development of the concept for determining the level of critical business processes security

Abstract

The development of technologies and computing resources not only expanded the spectrum of digital services in all areas of human activity, but also defined the spectrum of targeted cyber attacks. The object of the study is the process of ensuring the safety of critical business processes that ensure the continuity of production and/or functioning of the company/organization/enterprise as a whole. Targeted attacks are aimed at destroying not only the business structure, but also its individual components that determine critical business processes. Continuity of such business processes is a critical component of any company, organization or enterprise of any form of government, which critically affects the earning of profits or the organization of production processes. The proposed concept of determining the security level of critical business processes is based on the need to use multi-loop information protection systems. This allows to ensure the continuity of critical business processes through a timely objective assessment of the level of security and the timely formation of preventive measures. This approach is based on the proposed rules for determining the achievement of a given level of security, which are based on assessments of the integrity, availability and confidentiality of information arrays, as well as computer equipment in relation to various points of the organization's business processes. The use of threat integration on the internal and external contours of the protection system allows to ensure the necessary level of security and continuity of the production/technological process of critical business processes. The proposed practical implementation of the system security level assessment system in the declarative programming language Prolog, which allows to form requirements regarding the achievement of a given system security level depending on the state assessments of individual system components