INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY OF AGRARIAN ENTERPRISES IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION

The article explores the role of information and technological components in forming the economic security of agricultural enterprises in the context of current trends in the digitization of economic processes. The impact of digitization on economic security at both the state and individual enterprise levels is examined, with a focus on emerging challenges and risks within the Industry 4.0 context. Various approaches to defining the concept of «enterprise economic security» and its functional components are analysed. The investment-innovation, information-communicative, intellectual-technological, and technical-technological aspects of enterprise economic security are discussed in terms of their interdependence with information technologies. The interrelation between informational and technological aspects of economic security and the necessity of studying them as integral components of economic security are investigated. The main tasks of the information-technological component of enterprise economic security, including information protection, cybersecurity, process of automation, and cost optimization, are formulated. The specificity of agricultural enterprises’ activities in the context of digitization, leading to increased importance of the information-technological component of economic security for their stable growth and competitiveness, is addressed. Among the current practical directions for ensuring economic security are highlighted monitoring and control systems, supply chain management systems, analytical and predictive systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as cybersecurity and data protection as prerequisites for integration with modern information technologies. The emergence of new risks and challenges for agricultural enterprises associated with rapid digitalization is emphasized. The need for constant tracking and implementation of innovations in the agricultural sector against the backdrop of active dynamics in the development of information technologies is emphasized.