Information Security in the Context of Philosophy of Management
Building a culture of information security involves consideration of problems of management in society. Ideas and approaches developed in philosophy of management are relevant to stu- dies in problems of information security in broader methodological and social context. The article focuses on problems of information and psychological security in social systems. The author considers disorienting signs and signals as information threat to security of persons and societies. The author argues that management ideology of pseudo-economical reductionism makes distortion at the level of values and priorities of the system. This ideology exalts com- petitiveness to the detriment of the systems’ viability. Philosophy of complexity (better known as «philosophy of complex systems») embraces new visions for methodology of man- agement in XXI century. «Observer of complexity» and «complexity of observer of com- plexity» phenomena are central in this context. The problem of appropriate language for sys- tem self-description is of critical importance. This language is necessary for substantive pro- duction of intellectual tools for problems solving and decision making; refusal to produce such tools is fraught with decrease of information security level.