The departmental personnel training system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has significant experience in training specialists in various educational programs in the field of information security. Over the past decade, due to various factors, significant changes have taken place in this area, particularly in its state regulation based directive provisions for the Russian Information Security Doctrine. And they have also given a new impetus to the actualization and adaptation of these changes in existing educational programs. Such work is being carried out «on a broad front» by Russian universities subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, within the framework of the Educational and Methodological Association of the same name. There is also an obvious need to solve this problem at the departmental level, in particular, within the framework of the personnel training system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. This paper presents the results of the pre-design survey, which is a part of the relevant educational programs developed on the basis of federal educational standards. Based on this survey, it is planned to further develop and implement measures to improve the quality of training in the field of managing information infrastructure security for Russian internal affairs authorities. The object of the study is to improve the quality of this process in the field of managing the security of the information for the Department of Internal Affairs. In order to achieve qualification requirements for certain categories within the internal affairs bodies, the article examines the domestic experience of leading Russian and international universities in educational training of specialists in the field of information security. The basis for the formulation of proposals for the modernization of the variable part of educational programs for the training of specialists in the protection of the information infrastructure of internal affairs authorities is the experience of designing domestic professional standards for the protection of information and individual foreign initiatives.