Study On The Administration Of Secret-Guarding In An Information Society

As transparency and publicization are becoming the hot topics of the government and the public, information also becomes a major concern of our society. The public neglect the information security while they enjoy the convenience of making information public and sharing information. There is a limit to information brought into the open. What should be mainly taken into consideration is not whether or not information should come out to the open, but is how information should be made public. In modern countries, out of considering the national interests and security, there are some information that are not suitable to or cannot be made public for a given period of time, e.g. state secretes, which should be guarded. That is the work of secret-guarding. Looking out at the countries all over the world, regardless of the pioneering countries or the following emerging ones in the process of making public their government affairs, their developments are not relentless, but all of them exclude state secrets from making public. Definitely not can the guarding of state secrets be affected due to making information public. All of this is concerned about secret and security administration.As the old sayings go:"Somethings succeed in keeping secret, lose in leaking secret","Among all the affairs in the army, the most important is keeping secret."Both of them stress the importance of secret-guarding. Under the present circumstances of informatization, enhancing and improving of the work of secret-guarding meet the need of facing the rigid challenge of secret-stealing, meet the need of boosting information-based drives and also meet the need of adapting to the deeper development of market-oriented economy, truly improving the Party's executing power, governing the country by the rule of law and safeguarding national interests and security.Living in information society, people can do nothing without information, info-technology, computer network. A country's activity in politics, economy, society, science & technology has more and more depent on information and information network. With publicizing of computer technology, The object, range, information secret-guarding management, method and mode as so on, all of these have be changed. The difficulty of secre-guarding increase continually and the situation is urgent extremely. At present, information secret-guarding management have many problems that management system is not suitable, legal system is not clear, conception of secret-guarding is not strong, technology is not advanced, IT technician is not so much. So it must be strengthen from all sides.In the era of making information public, how to make the work of secret-guarding meet the requirements brought about accordingly by the former is a new problem the government secret-guarding departments must face. Many problems and paradoxies in deeper extent faced by the work of secret-guarding conversely exert an impact on making information public, making it much more complicated.Now the problems the secret-guarding departments face are: a lot of people do not know what the state secrets are, what part of their work should be kept secret. Under the circumstances of informatization, most seriously, the public, also including staff of the government organs, are obscure or know less about what are going to result in secret losing and leaking or how the hidden troubles of secret losing and leaking are going to produce due to their lack of relevant knowledge of computer and internet safety. While in actual work, only can some cases of secret losing and leaking cause a vigilance to some units and individuals, and they usually accept the mistakes but are reluctant to correct them. Facing such situations and such secret-guarding conditions, how should the secret-guarding departments change the means and ways of their work and regain the initiative? That is the focus of this paper. In my opinion, the present most important tasks of the work of secret-guarding are : to make clear the tasks; to take early effective initiatives to positively prevent hidden troubles from producing; to make the key points of work stand out and safeguard them; to lay equal stress on technology and administration, giving a full play of the administrative functions as soon as possible in a brink work field in order to make people know that: first most of the work of secret-guarding departments itself is not"secret", and the point is to publicize the common sense of secret-guarding regulations and laws and to pay high attention to administration and oversight; second the work of secret-guarding is not no immediate concern to theirselves, but it is everyone's responsibility to carry it out.The paper starts from introducing knowledge about informationization and information secret-guarding. On the basis of having analyzing the challenge of information-based secret-guarding, it enumerates policy and experience of foreign secret-guarding management. Subsequently, it describes the actuality of our country, analyses problems and reasons. Finally, it brings forward a whole series of measure of promoting information-based secret-guarding.