ANNEX 1
to the Agreement on
Cooperation in the Field of Ensuring
International Information Security
among the Member States of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
List of Basic Terms in the Field of International Information Security
"Information Security" means the status of individuals, society and the state
and their interests when they are protected from threats, destructive and other
negative impacts in the information space;
"Information war" means a confrontation between two or more states in the
information space with the aim of damaging information systems, processes and
resources, critically important and other structures, undermining political,
economic and social systems, psychologically manipulating masses of the
population to destabilize society and the State, and also forcing the state to take
decisions in the interest of the opposing party;
"Information Infrastructure" means a range of technical tools and systems for
formation, generation, transformation, transmission, use and storage of
information;
"Information weapons" means information technologies, tools and methods
used for the purpose of information warfare;
"Cybercrime" means using information resources and/or influencing them in
the information space for illegal purposes;
"Information Space" means a field of activities related to the formation,
generation, transformation, transmission, use, storage of information that have an
impact, among other things on individual and social consciousness, information
infrastructure and information itself;
"Information Resources" means information infrastructure, as well as
information itself and its flows;
"Information terrorism" means using information resources in the information
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