The paper discusses the legal aspects of the security of the information society through the prism of criminal law and administrative science, identifies the most important issues, and suggests ways to solve them. The analysis of crime acts and offenses in the digital environment, committed with the use of digital technology, as well as proposals to improve measures to combat crime in the field of digital technology are being carried out. The manuscript analyzes the trends in the development of legal regulation under the condition of the digital revolution, digital technology, the new realities of "digitalization" of social institutions, including the institution of law. The authors come to the conclusion that there is a need for a new look at legal institutions in the era of the information society and digital technologies, the consistent adaptation of traditional legal mechanisms to new conditions. Undoubtedly, the control and supervision of the digital environment in the Russian Federation needs to be strengthened and improved in order to ensure information security. In this regard, the issue under consideration actually has high relevance and legal significance. The authors attempted a peculiar interpretation of the modern electronic (digital) environment, taking into account the existing regulatory legal acts in the Russian Federation and foreign legislation. Extraordinary proposals, which will be useful for all categories (levels) of readers with the aim of resolving some controversial issues of protecting the rights of citizens in the digital environment, have been put forward.