COMMUNICATION SECURITY AS THE PROGRAM OF SPECIALISTS TRAINING: SUBSTANCE, CONTENT OF COMPETENCIES, PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT

The article aims at defining the competence-based approach to training the future professionals incommunication security and development of the advanced fields of their high-qualitative training. The main resultsof the study are represented in the list of specialists’ professional competencies in the field of communication security,which includes: capability to identify communication threats; peculiarities of civilized, manipulative and barbaricinfluences at the state, corporate and personal levels; categories of manipulators, types of manipulative traps,existing manipulative techniques; capability for using effective means to neutralize or counteract to manipulativeinfluences; skills required for organization, planning and implementation of one’s actions in terms of informationattacks; acquisition of communicative, organizational and technical methods of information protection in the existinginformation systems and networks.