Evaluating the effectiveness of information maps of protected cyberspace

The relevance of the study stems from the urgency of protecting cyberspace, which is subjected to total information attacks by malicious codes and destructive content. One of the effective means to ensure the security of global and national cyberspace is the mapping of processes occurring in it, including monitoring and counteraction in the conditions of information confrontation, steadily increasing in the state, corporate and social networks. The main purpose of information maps should be seen as increasing the efficiency of experts' (decision-maker's) work based on resolving the contradiction between the need to obtain objective quantitative estimates of the information map influence on the speed and quality of tasks solved using it and the subjective factors affecting the aforementioned characteristics. In this regard, the paper considers for cartographic methods: speed of problem solving, accuracy of problem solving; labor intensity of building an information map; laboriousness of updating the information map; the amount of new knowledge gained through problem solving. This analyzes the effectiveness of the visualization, including the number of intersections and bends of the graph edges, their total length, shape metrics, dynamic stability, cluster and distance change reliability metrics. The effectiveness of the information map is assessed using a search for publications on "Computer Crime" as an example, including a graphical comparison of the results. The conclusion outlines the prospects for further research on the development of methodologies to assess the effectiveness of information maps of protected cyberspace.

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