The scientific article proposes a mechanism for ensuring the economic security of an agricultural enterprise, which contributes to the improvement of the financial position of an economic entity in the existing one. The current system of the process of ensuring economic security is a guarantee for the stable development of an economic entity, therefore the developed mechanism is in demand and a necessary condition for the development of an agricultural enterprise. The mechanism for ensuring the economic security of an enterprise is formed through a system of management activities in financial relations by using certain principles, financial levers, tools, methods of legal and information research, which allows achieving the main goals of the enterprise. Among the main components of the mechanism for ensuring economic security, eight main stages of the entire mechanism are proposed. The scope and specificity of the enterprise's business is formed taking into account the property status and financial interests of the enterprise: growth in the market value of the enterprise and maximization of profits; sufficiency of fixed and working capital; availability of the required volume of investment resources; optimization of payments to the budget, etc. ensuring the economic security of the enterprise plays a significant role in its functioning as a whole. The implementation of an effective mechanism for the economic security of an enterprise requires proper attention from managers to the level of integration into the global information space, the economic interests of the company, the level of expenditure of corporate resources and a clear organization of activities. The mechanism of the process of ensuring economic security is based on a systemic combination of certain tools, methods, means and information and analytical process of ensuring, created on the basis of objectively existing principles of the process of ensuring economic security, as well as those that are formulated by the subjects of managing the economic security of an enterprise to achieve and protect it. financial interests.