The purpose of the work is to determine the main components and features of innovative work to ensure the safety of critical infrastructure facilities. To achieve the goal, the following tasks were solved. First, the concepts of innovation, innovative activity and innovative project were considered. It is shown that the initiators of innovative projects are people or organizations that have money or resources that they seek to increase. Implementation of an innovative project is the process of creating and bringing an innovative product to the market, which consists of four stages, namely: obtaining an investment for an innovative project; implementation of innovative development (know-how); development use; obtaining additional value or other qualitative improvement. Then the driving forces of innovative management are described. It is shown that innovative management is implemented from two directions. On the one hand, venture capital searches for and selects appropriate know-how for the benefit of developing (or finalizing) innovative projects, investing in them and obtaining profit based on added value. On the other hand, there is an individual or a creative team that has know-how and offers its version of an innovative project. The success of this project is largely determined by the multifunctionality of this know-how. After that, the features of innovative work to ensure security were analyzed. It is shown that security is a combination of all types of security and physical protection of an object, which are defined as the degree of its stability and ability to resist military and terrorist, political and social, legal and organizational, man-made, and other threats. At the same time, the main feature of security is the lack of real profit, which should come from funds invested in security. In the end, to conclude that the main features of innovative work on the security of critical infrastructure facilities are its indirect profit (does not bring monetary profit), the need for appropriate legislation that stimulates this activity, the multifunctionality of know-how, which allows it to be applied in other areas, that bring real profit.