Cybersecurity and modern forms of interstate confrontation

In recent years, the sphere of confrontation has signifi cantly expanded due to the increasing share of political and diplomatic, economic, information, cybernetic, psychological means and methods of implementing political goals in international confrontation. The author declares that today information and communication technologies are often used to interfere in the internal aff airs of sovereign states, and the goal of destabilizing the socio-political situation in the state is to generate protest potential in society and create a political singularity, which leads to the infl ation of power in this country and its discredit. The article deals with modern forms of interstate confrontation with the use of violent changes in the global political landscape using the capabilities of modern information and communication technologies. It is emphasized that the global confrontation has acquired a permanent character and periodically escalates to extremely dangerous levels when using hybrid forms of confrontation between states and their coalitions. The author notes that in the modern world, the use of innovative, and fi rst of all, information and communication technologies, for violent