Ensuring the Validity of Exit-polls Results as a Task of Information Security

The article presents the results of the analysis problems related to ensuring the reliability of exit poll data which has led to a reasonable question that the discussed task is isomorphic in its formulation to information security tasks. Therefore, it is advisable to use information protection methods to solve this question. The choice of appropriate methods is justified, as well as the need for additional legal regulation defining and specifying the procedure for conducting exit polls, rules of behaviour and limits of their compliance for participants. The models of security threats to the data of sociological polls at the exit of polling stations, violators models and protection models, development of optimal means and methods to ensure the reliability, integrity, availability of exit poll data for each stage of this sociological research are proposed. Both additional legal regulation of exit polls at the federal level and the development of rules for conducting such studies are necessary for the implementation of this protection system.