Information security situation center

The paper considers the purpose and characteristics of situational centers as information technology facilities that ensure the implementation of situational management. A situational center is a system. The paper indicates complicated composition and structure of information resources used to make decisions. The variety of levels of confidentiality related to the processed information is a factor of situational centers information security. Information security is performed as information protection. The paper presents an approach to building the systems of information security and protection for situational centers based on the architectural approach. Herewith, this architecture of any run organization is of a set of business architecture+IT architecture and the concept of system architecture complies with ISO/IEC 15288-2008. The paper formulates the actual problems of information security situational centers.