The article is devoted to the study of the place and role of information security formation in the system of state policy. The current ongoing processes of transformation of Ukrainian society, associated with the irreversible processes of globalization, require the development of optimal formats of security in all its forms, including information security. Thus, the study of the genesis of information security in the general context of security and the main approaches to this phenomenon as a social phenomenon in foreign and domestic science shows that the concept of information security, its content characteristics are still in the process of formation and understanding. At the same time, in the current conditions of society, interconnected with global processes of world development, one of the leading places is the need to study information security as part of national security, and hence - its categorical status, place and role in the existing Russian security system. states.