The work examines the essence of economic security, which is a state of legal, financial, and industrial relations that ensures the optimal production process and obtaining financial and commercial profit of the enterprise. The components of the economic security management system are substantiated (security objects, security subjects, goals and objectives, functions, principles, and management methods). In the research process, it was established that the system of economic security of enterprises provides the possibility of prevention and, because of the neutralization of various threats, protects the economic interests of the enterprise and prevents losses in amounts higher than the critical limit. The interrelationship of the elements of the economic security system, which determines the requirements that must be satisfied by the definition of the concept of "economic security of enterprises", is revealed. The main principles of the functioning of the economic security system of the enterprise were systematized, which made it possible to establish the peculiarities of the functioning of this system. The role of the company's resources (capital, personnel potential, entrepreneurial abilities of managers, information, technology) used to prevent dangers and threats and achieve the primary business goals is substantiated. The main tasks of the economic security management system of the enterprise have been established. It is highlighted that when managing the economic security of enterprises, it is expedient to use such regulatory measures as legal, financial, informational, strategic, and innovative production. It is proposed to consider the economic security management system of enterprises as a complex of interrelated measures of organizational, economic, legal, and personnel direction to protect the enterprise from economic losses. The need for a comprehensive system of economic security in the process of achieving effective economic activity and ensuring innovative changes favorable to its economic security is proven.
Keywords: management, system, economic security, management of economic security, dangers, threats.