Resistance Is Not Hopeless ... Regarding the Policy of Countering Information Threats of Economic Security

Information and communication technologies are widely used in modern conditions. Individuals, businesses and public administration system try to adapt to the new "game rules" as quickly as possible, to introduce modern information systems, to use the Internet in life, in production and transactions, purchases, promotion of goods and services. However, new information artifacts threaten each business entity well-being and lead to information leak, software malfunction, cyber-espionage, an open information attack or direct financial losses due to cybercrime in banking operations. The purpose of the scientific article is the identification of existing information threats to economic security, their economic consequences and possible ways to prevent them through the state policy implementation. A detailed analysis of the sources of scientific information allowed to establish the role and place of information threats in the economic security threats system, to create a model of information threats influence on economic security and to form a differentiated approach to the implementation of state policy for reducing economic security information threats.