The purpose of the study is to focus on the need to introduce the concept of a cyber attack as an emergency situation to reduce the number of cyber threats in institutions, organizations and enterprises when using modern information technologies. The study is devoted to the analysis of cyber attacks on people’s life support facilities in the world and in Russia, in particular. Currently, the media in different countries of the modern world are talking about the avalanche growth in the number of cyber-attacks; this makes information security one of the most important issues in the activities of government agencies and production facilities. The problem of information security is studied in detail, taking into account the consequences of cyber attacks on technological systems in all spheres of human activity.

Keywords: cybersecurity, cyber emergency, monitoring, Zero Trust model, cyber insurance