CRIMINAL LAW PROVISION OF INFORMATION SECURITY OF A SMART CITY AS AN OBJECT OF CII

Abstract

Disruption of the functioning of the smart city ecosystem can lead to significant negative consequences, for example, to the shutdown of the city or all industrial enterprises. Smart city information systems are a very attractive target for intruders and are increasingly exposed to various computer attacks. Crimes against the sustainability of a smart city as a critical information infrastructure (CII) cause significant harm to the interests of the state, the citizen, and the smart city as a CII. Currently, this problem is not given due attention, despite the formation of the “institute of responsibility for crimes against the information security of the CII and information processed in the CII”. The article provides a criminological analysis of crime in the field of computer information for the period from 2017 to 2022. The statistics of computer attacks on a smart city for the period of 2021 and the first half of 2022, and the persons brought to responsibility for committing computer attacks are presented. The negative social phenomena associated with crime against the security and sustainability of the functioning of the CII of a smart city are analyzed. Analysis of statistics on bringing persons to responsibility for crimes committed under art. 274.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, allows us to conclude that the largest number of crimes related to causing harm to the CII of the Russian Federation are committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group, or by a person using his official position (Part 4 of Article 274.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Prosecution under Part 5 of Article 274.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was not carried out in 2021 and in the first half of 2022, from which it can be concluded that, despite the difficult situation in the world, attacks on the CII of the Russian Federation did not lead to serious consequences.