The existence of any state is connected with socio-economic and political-legal processes in the world. During the period of global social transformations and major economic and political re-forms, Russia finds itself in a socio-political situation of necessity to protect its interests, includ-ing economic ones. Therefore, the legislator solves the most important task of legal provision of economic security by criminal legal means. This text aims to examine the theoretical foundations of economic security, analyze the current state of the Russian economy with its level of functional security and identify ways to improve security and criminal law provisions. The methodology of this research is a set of methods, techniques and tools of cognition used in research, both theoreti-cal, empirical and applied. The authors concluded that the main threat to the economic security of the country is economic crimes, the fight against which is impossible without criminal legislation. Therefore, the modernization of criminal policy should be carried out by improving legislation and introducing a well-thought-out system of law enforcement, which includes a similar valuation of all subjects of economic relations.

The article deals with the actual problem of the spread of information terrorism in the world space. Information terrorism is a new type of criminal activity. Terrorists use modern information resources, the Internet to spread the ideology of terrorism. The general scientific dialectical method and a complex of scientific methods of cognition (system-structural, formal-logical) represent the methodological basis of the research. The results reached by the authors are that in modern conditions the threat of information terrorism has become a reality. Comprehensive prevention of the threat of information terrorism must be carried out within the framework of reforming the country through the widespread automation and digitalization of all life support facilities, as well as the country's integration into international information exchange. In the conclusion, the authors formulated the main conclusions of the study, substantiated the need to develop measures to counter information terrorism.