Journal of the Ural Federal District. Information security

The "Journal of the Ural Federal District. Information security" is a periodical, peer-reviewed subscription publication created by the decision of the Coordinating Council for the training (retraining) and advanced training of information security personnel in the Ural Federal District.

The journal is listed among the leading Russian scientific journals and magazines recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia for publication of the key research findings of Candidate and Doctoral (PhD) theses in:

2.2.13 – Radio Engineering, including Television Systems and Devices,
2.3.1 – System Analyses, Control and Information Processing,
2.3.6 – Information Protection Methods and Systems, Information Security.

The journal is issued once a quarter. The publications are formed gradually as the articles appear. The editorial board has a right to refuse the author’s publication if the article’s scientific level is not sufficient or it does not fit the research agenda. It also has a right to send the article back for improvements.
Original scientific works and review articles of Russian scientists dedicated to topical issues in information security and security in personal, state and social activities are published in the journal.

The journal's topics include the following areas of research:

2.2.13 - Radio engineering, including television systems and devices:

1. Study of new processes and phenomena in radio engineering, allowing to increase the efficiency of radio engineering devices and systems.
2. Research of phenomena of passage of electromagnetic waves of various ranges through media, their scattering and reflection.
3. Development and investigation of new radiotechnical devices and systems, providing improved accuracy, response time, and noise resistance characteristics.
4. Development and research of devices for generation, amplification, conversion and synthesis of radio signals, image and sound signals in radiotechnical devices and systems for various applications, including TV systems and devices. Creation of methods of their calculation and design basis.
5. Development and research of algorithms, including digital, for signal and information processing in radiotechnical devices and systems for various purposes, including synthesis and optimization of processing algorithms.
6. Development and research of methods and algorithms for signal and information processing in various radio engineering devices and systems, including TV and communication radio systems, with a view to improve noise resistance.
7. Development and research of methods for ensuring the electromagnetic compatibility of radio engineering systems and devices, including television and communication radio systems, and methods for destructing and protecting information in these systems.
8. Development and research of radio engineering devices and systems of information transmission, including radio relay and telemetry systems, including space systems, in order to increase their carrying capacity, noise resistance and noise immunity.
9. Research and development of new television systems and devices, including television cameras, including those with IP interfaces, digital codecs, modems and other devices for transmitting and reproducing images and sound, as well as methods and algorithms for modulation, demodulation, coding, decoding and restoration of images, including in photoreceivers, and sound, with the aim of improving the quality of transmitted information and noise immunity.
10. Development and research of methods and devices for transmitting, receiving, processing, displaying, storing and distributing information, including space, air, cable and mobile video communications.
11. Development of promising information technologies, including digital ones, and with the use of neural networks for signal, image and speech recognition in intelligent radio-technical, robotic and other technical vision systems.
12. Development of methods for improvement of clarity, quality of color rendering, absolute and contrast sensitivity of images formed and used in TV systems.
13. Creation of theory of synthesis, analysis and adaptation of radio engineering devices and systems, signal and information processing algorithms in these systems.
14. Development and research of methods for simulation of radio engineering devices and systems, including digital television systems of high, ultra-high, ultra-high definition and other formats, for television broadcasting and special applications.
15. Development and research of physical, mathematical and hybrid simulation models of radiotechnical devices and systems, including systems and devices of analog and digital television and optoelectronic devices.
16. Development of scientific and technical bases of design, construction, production technology, testing, and certification of radiotechnical devices and systems, including black-and-white, color, spectrozonal, infrared, terahertz and multiview television systems, passive and active systems of volume television, including holographic.
17. Development of methods and devices for television measurements, including colorimetry, quantitative assessment of quality of generated, transmitted and received information.18. Development of radio and television devices for their use in industry, robotics, astronomy, astronomy, metrology, information and measurement technology, as well as for underground, underwater and other applications.

2.3.1 – System Analyses, Control and Information Processing

1. Theoretical foundations and methods of system analysis, optimization, management, decision making, information processing and artificial intelligence.
2. Formalization and formulation of problems of system analysis, optimization, management, decision making, information processing and artificial intelligence.
3. Development of criteria and models for describing and evaluating the effectiveness of solving problems of system analysis, optimization, management, decision-making, information processing, and artificial intelligence.
4. Developing methods and algorithms for solving problems of system analysis, optimization, management, decision-making, information processing and artificial intelligence.
5. Development of special mathematical and algorithmic support for systems analysis, optimization, management, decision making, information processing and artificial intelligence.
6. Methods for identifying control systems based on retrospective, current, and expert information.
7. Methods and algorithms for structural-parametric synthesis and identification of complex systems.
8. Theoretical-multiple and theoretical-informational analysis of complex systems.
9. Development of problem-oriented systems of control, decision-making, and optimization of technical objects.
10. Methods and algorithms of intellectual support in making managerial decisions in technical systems.
11. Methods and algorithms for forecasting and assessment of efficiency, quality, reliability of functioning of complex control systems and their elements.
12. Visualization, transformation and analysis of information on the basis of computer methods of information processing.
13. Methods for obtaining, analyzing and processing expert information.
14. Development of fundamentally new methods of analysis and synthesis of control systems elements in order to improve their technical characteristics.
15. Theoretical analysis and experimental research of control system elements functioning under normal and special conditions in order to improve their technical, economic and operational characteristics.

2.3.6 – Information Protection Methods and Systems, Information Security
1. Theory and methodology of information security and information protection.
2. Methods, hardware and software, and organizational measures to protect systems (objects) of formation and provision of information resources of various types to users.
Methods, models and means of detecting, identifying and classifying threats to information security of objects of various types and classes.
4. Document flow systems (regardless of their degree of computerisation) and means of protection of information circulating in them.
5. Methods, models and means (complexes of means) of information counteraction against threats of information security violation in open computer networks, including the Internet. 6.
6. Methods, models and tools for monitoring, preventing, detecting and countering violations and computer attacks in computer networks.
7. Models and methods of forming complexes of means to counteract threats to information security for various types of protection objects (systems, supply chains) regardless of their area of operation.
8. Analysis of information security breach risks and vulnerability of information processing, storage and transmission processes in information systems of any type and application area.
9. Models to counter information security breach threats for any type of information systems, allowing to obtain information security performance assessments.
10. Models and methods for assessing information security and information security of an object.
11. Models and methods to assess the effectiveness of systems (complexes), means and measures to ensure information security of protected objects.
12. Technologies of identification and authentication of users and subjects of information processes. Access differentiation systems.
13. Research and development of methods to detect and counteract the spread of false and malicious information. 14.
14. Measures and mechanisms for the formation of information security policy for objects at all levels of the management system hierarchy.
15. Principles and solutions (technical, mathematical, organizational, etc.) to create new and improve existing information protection and information security tools.
16. Models, methods and means to ensure the audit and monitoring of the state of the object under the influence of threats to its information security, and the investigation of information security incidents in automated information systems.
17. Methods, models and tools for developing secure programs, detecting security defects in software, countering covert data channels, and identifying vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks.
18. Models and methods for managing information security, business continuity and recovery of systems, and resisting denial of service.
19. Research in the field of security of cryptographic algorithms, cryptographic primitives, cryptographic protocols. Protection of infrastructure to ensure the application of cryptographic techniques.