Ensuring Cybersecurity for Higher Educational Institutions

Higher educational institutions are organizational and economic systems with social, information and communication elements that integrally reflect the very essence of the educational process. Like any system, they need protection and security. The cyberspace of higher education institutions is a very weak side of them and they do not pay due attention to it. The main purpose of the study is to form an approach of ensuring cybersecurity in higher education institutions. For this, the methodology of functional modeling and graphical description of processes (IDEF0) was applied. Thanks to the application of the method of functional modeling and graphical description of processes, it was possible to achieve the set goal and to focus in detail on the key features of the process of ensuring cybersecurity in higher educational institutions and to understand the subject matter of the field of study. The cybersecurity process in higher education institutions is a part of a holistic organizational and economic system and is ideally suited for functional modeling and graphical description of processes (IDEF0). As a result of the study, a decomposition of the first level of the IDEF0 model of ensuring the cybersecurity of higher educational institutions was formed.