FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF POLICE ACTIVITIES IN COMBATING CYBERCRIME (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

Abstract

In the context of improving the activities of public authorities, it is of particular importance to study the positive foreign experience of public authorities whose activities are aimed at ensuring the cybersecurity of the State and countering cybercrime. One of these entities is the police, which are responsible for ensuring both the internal component of the state's security and the external component of the state's national security. In this paper, we will consider the experience of the United States in this area, since this country was one of the first to define and adopt a number of laws and regulations at the national level in the field of combating cybercrime and ensuring the cybersecurity of the state. The reasons for such prompt approval of concepts and strategies for countering information crimes and cyberattacks were the events of September 11, 2001, when a series of terrorist attacks were committed by members of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The FBI is the leading U.S. federal agency for investigating cyberattacks committed by criminals, foreign adversaries and terrorists. As cyber intrusions are becoming more and more common, the FBI's activities are constantly being improved to better counter the terrorist threat after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.At the same time, one of the priority areas of combating cybercrime in the United States is combating human trafficking, which is carried out with the use of information technology in the virtual space and harms the rights and fundamental freedoms of man and citizen protected by law. It is determined that in order to effectively combat cybercrime and ensure the cybersecurity of the State, the United States has created an appropriate legal framework for the activities of specialized entities fighting cybercrime and established an effective system of bodies, the main functions of which are to ensure cyber defense and counteract all manifestations of cybercrime, which undoubtedly significantly affects the state of law and order in the State.