Cyber Security in the Era of COVID-19: Threats to Digital Platforms Stability and Cyber Hygiene Rules

Purpose/objectives: the article is devoted to a study of the public life reshaped in the era of COVID-2019 that has become a developmental milestone for the modern world. The COVID-19 is called a Black Swan event that is hard predicted and rare, but has significant consequences for the world economy and other spheres of human life. The authors investigated situations of social distance, self-isolation, quarantine, as well as digital interaction platforms being developed, and their cyber resistance. Methodology: the work applied methods of regulatory analysis and assessment of the current situation of broken virus infection chain to avoid a peak in COVID-19 cases and prevent overloading the public health system affected by the pandemic; comparative and trend analysis of statistical data; content analysis methods; formalization and analogue methods; and datasets of the Institute of Scientific Communications. Results: the analysis of the implemented information interaction requires a search for a balance between the need to ensure compliance with the restriction regime introduced, human rights and freedoms, and cybersecurity in the broad sense in order to prevent unauthorized access to privacy information. Conclusions/relevance: it is necessary to disseminate the practice of cyber hygiene in Russia that should be monitored by a separate agency in the structure of the Government of the Russian Federation, similar to the Cybersecurity Agency of the European Union or the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency of the United States. Its competence would include issues of cybersecurity and enforcement rights of Internet users in Russia