Typing of social institutions via encoding method for individual activity as an element of information security

Abstract

Some problems of information security must to take into account the specific features of perception and infor­mation processing in a variety of social institutions. Such typology of institutions allows making a more complete management of information security. Existing typologies of social institutions are based mainly on the external characteristics to them. The formal and informal institu­tions, development and predatory institutions, social and economic, etc. are described. Such typologies of social institutions are mainly used for problems of economic, political, and social security. Known tools cannot directly to use these typologies to problems of information securi­ty. The typology is developed for coding of individuals for carrying out activities within the framework of a social institution, using the methods of their training in methods and standards of individual and collective activity, as well as infrastructures, which within the social institution re­sponsible for their training. It is shown that there are three types of social institutions for the encoding of the individual in methods of activity: personality-nominal, professional-nominal and universal-conceptual. The de­veloped typology can describe the important information security features of social institutions, such as institutions of corruption, mafia, terrorism, law, higher education, and information characteristics for interaction between social institutions, which are the different types. The developed typology uses only information characteristics, which describe the activities of man, society and the state.