Identifies the following key areas of ensuring information security in the field of national defence:
- Ensuring strategic deterrence and preventing military conflicts that may be brought about by the use of information technologies;
- Upgrading the information security system of the Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and bodies, including forces and means of information confrontation;
- Forecasting, identifying and assessing information threats, including threats to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in information sphere;
- Promoting the interests of the Russian Federation’s allies in information sphere;
- Countervailing information and psychological actions, including those aimed at undermining the historical foundations and patriotic traditions related to defending the homeland.