The article covers issues related to those changes occurring in the economic life and the financial and credit system, enterprises of various forms of ownership, etc. - having a significant impact on the protection of information. For a long time in our country there was only one property - state property, therefore information and secrets were also state only, which were guarded by special services.

In connection with the openness of the national information space and the popularity of foreign media, including television and Internet resources (postal services, social networks, blogs and video portals), there is a real threat of information impact on the public consciousness of the population.

Information impact can be expressed both in the form of direct imposition of ideas that contradict the national interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and in the form of creating a certain information background artificially maintained by manipulating information or its tendentious commenting. To counteract such manipulation of public consciousness, it is required to seriously improve the effectiveness of the state information policy, increase the openness of state bodies, and increase the security of citizens' right to information.