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China’s practice to continuously improve its theories, methods and technologies.

The evolving path of Chinese and foreign information security systems
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XIANG Liling & CHEN Mengjie〇

The information security system is a legal regime that ensures the safety of nations, organizations
and personal data, and regulates the information security behavior of various social subjects.
With the arrival of big data era, information crime incidents such as network hackers, information
thefts and privacy violations threaten not only security of network environment, but also
national sovereignty of cyber space. Governments have raised “moderate security” principle
to “big security” principle of national information security and network security strategy, and
have promulgated a series of policies, laws and regulations to maintain information security
environment and improve information security capability. According to relevant legislations and
researches of each country, this paper analyzes evolutionary path of information security system
from three levels of information security concepts, legislative principles and construction of legal
system.
By using the methods of literature analysis, comparative analysis and comprehensive
analysis, the evolution of the concept has experienced three stages: information confidentiality,
computer security and information security. The principle has evolved from “moderate security”
to “big security”. The national information security legal system path has evolved along the
communications and computer security legislation, network security legislation and information
security system legislation. The legislative framework, legislative scope and legislative content
of each stage are different. This paper provides a reference for the whole framework of building a
new information security system through a multi-angle and three-dimensional analysis.
Information security is a positive defense measure of content security, data security, physical
security, network security and information infrastructure security under the big security concept.
Information security system is moving from dispersion to unity, from simple legislation to
“Legislation and Implementation Mechanism”. The security system is the formation of a
technology, management, legal system, culture and other elements, transnational and cross-
regional, all-round active defense overall linkage framework. Above it, some international
consensuses have been reached, including information security from passive defense to active
defense, information security legislation by the decentralized single-line legislation to a unified
legislative transformation, information security efforts to upgrade, the construction of international
coverage of information security system become a trend, national information security strategy
and its action plan in full swing. Under the guidance of the principle of overall national security,

* Correspondence should be addressed to CHEN Mengjie, Email: 820182482@qq.com, ORCID: 0000-0002-1824-5036