of which determine existing and potential threats 
to  information  security,  as  well  as  ways  of 
solution. Specially authorized entities operate in 
Ukraine  to  ensure  information  security,  for 
example,  the  Center  for  Combating 
Disinformation  and  the  National  Coordination 
Center for Cyber Security under the Council of 
National Security  and Defense  of Ukraine, the 
National Center for Reserving State Information 
Resources. The latter ensures the reliability and 
uninterrupted  operation  of  state  information 
resources, storage of state electronic information 
resources,  backup  of  information,  and 
information  of  state  electronic  information 
resources  of  state  bodies,  military  formations 
(except  for  the  Armed  Forces  and  the  Main 
Directorate  of  Intelligence  of  the  Ministry  of 
Defense),  formed  in  accordance  with  laws, 
enterprises,  institutions,  and  organizations 
(Resolution No. 94, 2021). 
 
As  for  the  national  program  documents  that 
determine  the  policy  in  the  field  of  national 
security  and  its  components,  in  Ukraine,  a 
significant sectorization of national security has 
been carried out by distinguishing: the military 
security strategy of Ukraine, the cyber security 
strategy, the strategic defense bulletin, the public 
safety and civil defense strategy of Ukraine, the 
defense  development  strategy  of  the  non-
industrial complex of  Ukraine (Law No.  2469, 
2018). 
Separately, we note that control over the national 
security sector should be implemented through 
parliamentary control (openness of policy in the 
field  of  public  defense  and  security,  ensuring 
access to military budgets, the inclusion of civil 
society in debates on issues covering the security 
sector,  control  over  intelligence  services,  arms 
control, anti-corruption policies, and regulations, 
as  well  as  international  standards  and 
conventions); financial regulators (planning and 
budgeting, financial management, transparency, 
regulation  of  secret  budgets,  auditing);  human 
resources (for example, personnel management, 
codes  of  conduct,  conducting  training  on  the 
education of integrity) (Central fot Integrity in 
the Defence Sector, 2021). 
 
Thus,  public  administration  in  the  field  of 
national  security  must  follow  the  general 
principles of public administration - the rule of 
law  and  good  governance  and  international 
standards  in  the  field  of  national  security  - 
compliance with gender equality, the openness of 
information about the state of national security, 
implementation  of  democratic  control  over 
public institutions, sectorization of the sphere of 
national  security,  the  combination  of 
globalization  trends  in  the  field  of  national 
security with national interests. 
 
Subjects of public administration are authorized 
by  public  institutions  that  implement  a  set  of 
economic,  motivational,  organizational,  and 
legal means of purposeful influence on a certain 
sphere of public relations. The set of subjects of 
public  administration  forms  an  institutional 
mechanism. 
 
Within  the  scope  of  administrative  executive 
activity, it is possible to single out:  
 
a) bodies of general competence that regulate 
social relations as a whole, for example, the 
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the President 
of  Ukraine,  the  Cabinet  of  Ministers  of 
Ukraine (Mangora, 2019);  
b) bodies  of  special  competence,  which 
perform specific tasks in a certain sphere of 
public  relations  (Makarenko,  2014; 
Makushev, 2021). 
 
The national security of the state is institutionally 
ensured  through  the  activities  of  authorized 
subjects - a system of state institutions formed in 
accordance  with  the  laws  of  Ukraine,  military 
formations,  law  enforcement,  and  intelligence 
agencies, state bodies of special purpose with law 
enforcement functions, civil defense forces, the 
activities  of  which  are  functionally  aimed  at 
protecting  national  interests  of  Ukraine  from 
threats, as well as citizens and public associations 
that  voluntarily  participate  in  ensuring  the 
national security of Ukraine. 
 
The system of subjects of public administration 
in  the  field  of  national  security  is  formed  as 
follows:  
 
1) subjects of general competence that manage 
the security sector: the President of Ukraine, 
the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;  
2) subjects of special competence: the National 
Security  and  Defense  Council  of  Ukraine, 
the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the State 
Special  Transport  Service,  the  Ministry  of 
Internal  Affairs  of  Ukraine,  the  National 
Guard  of  Ukraine,  the  National  Police  of 
Ukraine,  the  State  Border  Service  of 
Ukraine,  the  State  Migration  Service  of 
Ukraine,  the  State  Service  of  Ukraine  for 
emergency situations,  the  Security  Service 
of Ukraine, the Court Security Service, the 
State Security Office of Ukraine, the State 
Service  for  Special  Communications  and 
Information  Protection  of  Ukraine,  the 
intelligence agencies of Ukraine, the central