CLASSIFICATION OF THREATS TO THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION IN BUSINESS IN ORDER TO ENSURE ECONOMIC SECURITY

Abstract

The article highlights the importance of ensuring the confidentiality of information of commercial, legal and strategic value to businesses. The key consequences of information leaks are considered. Current threats to information security, including those arising from the digitalization of the economy, have been identified and described. The existing classifications of threats by source and method of implementation are reviewed and summarized, and the author's classification feature by degree of danger is added. Criteria have been developed for ranking the level of threats to the confidentiality of information by the degree of danger. In the future, the proposed classification of the author provides managers with the opportunity to identify weaknesses in information security in a timely manner and effectively work with sources of risk situations that violate the confidentiality of business data.