Industrial Automatic Control Systems and Controllers Annotation << Back A new Software and Hardware Approach to Detecting Plagiarism in Student Papers – as an Important Link in the Information Security of the Results of Intellectual Work Kirenberg A.G., Slavolyubova Ya.V. This article examines the problem of student plagiarism, describes the problems in combating student plagiarism, studies existing approaches to combating student plagiarism, and reviews existing software and hardware methods and tools for detecting and combating plagiarism. The purpose of writing this research paper: to develop a software and hardware approach to detecting plagiarism in student laboratory work. Conclusions obtained during the study: There are no ideal and universal detection systems, which is due to the wide variety of structures of the analyzed texts. Each type of text requires its own separate system that takes into account its features. The concept of a new method that we propose allows us to detect plagiarism using indicators that are “on the surface” and do not require too complex algorithms for their implementation. In general, a combination (complex solutions) of existing approaches and methods our methodology will allow us to create tools whose effectiveness will approach 100 %. Keywords: methods and systems of information protection, information security, results of intellectual activity. DOI: 10.25791/asu.8.2025.1603 Pp. 20-29.