The purpose of the study is to analyse the main problems that law
enforcement agencies and information technology security specialists face when
investigating cybercrime. In particular, the research work is also aimed at
identifying the main shortcomings in the process of investigating crimes in the
relevant area, analysing the legal acts governing these legal relations, and
elucidating foreign experience in further improving the investigation of
cybercrime. The methods that were used to write the work are as follows: legal
hermeneutics, comparative, statistical, method of analysis, synthesis. The main
results of the study were: clarification of the concept of “information technology”,
as well as the categories involved in this concept, in particular, information legal
relations, cybercrimes; analysis of the legislation regulating relations in the
information sphere and the main shortcomings of the relevant legislation of
Kazakhstan, possible improvements in regulatory legal acts.