The article analyzes the main measures of information protection, their importance in building a system of information protection of a state institution, as well as possible vulnerabilities of these measures. Based on the analysis and practical experience, moral and ethical norms are identified as the most vulnerable and least studied from a pedagogical point of view. Taking into account the specifics of the activity of a civil servant, proposals are formulated to form a sense of responsibility for the safety of information of limited distribution in a civil servant, based, among other things, on the personal example of the head of a structural subdivision of a state institution.

The article presents the results of a study of the ideas of civil servants holding different positions about the psychological characteristics of a modern Russian leader. The factor analysis carried out in the subgroups allocated by the level of the position showed that in the views of the study participants about the modern Russian leader there are both similarities due to the sphere of professional activity and differences due to the official position held by the respondents. There are eight images of a modern Russian leader, which together make up his holistic, but at the same time contradictory portrait and reflect different types of leaders, from the point of view of respondents, characteristic of the current stage of Russia’s development.