Energy security in the age of digitalization

Abstract

The article discusses modern problems of ensuring national and international energy security, related to the increasing threats in cyberspace. A cyberattack on the critical infrastructure of countries (electric power industry) is one of the tools of political pressure, causing significant indiscriminate damage that undermines statehood. Particular attention is paid to the risks of the impact of cyber technologies on the state’s electric power system. The authors formulate a conclusion about the need to intensify the process of international law‑making in fixing the legal boundaries of the use of information and communication technologies.

An analysis of international legal documents, russian and foreign legal acts allows us to identify common for all countries challenges to energy security and the features of national approaches in the implementation energy policy, the main direction of which today is to ensure cybersecurity in the energy sector of the country’s economy.