Role of Information Security in Terms of Digital Economy

Abstract

The current level of economic development implies an active use of the Internet, satellite communications, and new technologies of processing, storing, and transmitting information, which, in its turn, makes the problem of protecting personal data and ensuring information security of the state and enterprises urgent. Unauthorized access to information resources of organizations, destruction, blocking, copying and use of companies information for the deceptive purposes of third parties cause significant damage to both individuals and businesses and the state. The article examines the correlation of the concepts of information security and economic security, specifies todays existing challenges and threats to economic security in the context of digital transformation, analyzes the statistical data of economic crimes using digital technologies; it identifies possible causes and factors of weakening the security of the digital economy. The authors present an analysis of statistical data that characterize the number and structure of crimes related to violation of information security of the country and territories. In particular, they examine the following types of crimes: cyber attacks on the websites of public authorities; creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs; fraud using electronic means of payment.