Economic Security Of Business In The Digital Economy

Abstract

This article examines the problem of the impact of the digital economy on the economic security of business, and also determines its role and significance in the modern world. The article reveals the importance of timely ensuring the economic, financial and information security of organizations from various threats from the digital economy and digital technologies. Today, this problem is relevant, because with the advent of the digital economy, the economy is being transformed, which leads to the identification of economic security risks associated with the use of digital technologies. The main purpose of this work is to study and analyze the digital economy in relation to the economic security of business, the key tasks of which are: to investigate and analyze the essence of the digital economy, to identify the main trends in the development of the digital economy in the modern world, and to consider the digital economy in relation to the economic security of business. Thus, the article reveals the essence of the concept of "digital economy" from different points of view, assesses the contribution of the digital economy to the Russian economy, identifies the leading areas of the digital economy, and identifies the benefits of digitalization of the economy and the dangers that await in business. Key research and publications on the digital economy and digital technologies in Russia and in the world today can be found on a special website – Digest of the Digital Economy.

Keywords: Digital economy, digital technologies, information, economic security, organization

Introduction

Currently, the success of any business largely depends on the degree of its security, so the problem of economic security of the enterprise is one of the main and important, which must be solved immediately.

It is difficult to design, build, or manage a security system if you do not know what to protect, from whom, and to what extent. Therefore, to build an effective security system, an extensive information infrastructure must work, allowing you to get timely and secure access to information.

Modern information and communication technologies significantly change all social relations, in connection with which it is noted that at present there is a formation of a new information society, which is called the "digital economy". Therefore, today the most urgent problem in the world is the impact of the digital economy on the economic security of the enterprise, and as a result on the information security of the business.

The term digital economy was first used by author Don Tapscott in the book "Digital Economy: Promise and Danger in the Age of Network Intelligence" in 1995. In the age of digital technologies, there is a huge growth of digital platforms, which has led to the integration of the Internet into all spheres of human life (Rogozhina, 2020).

The Government of the Russian Federation developed and approved the Program "Digital Economy in the Russian Federation" until 2035, which includes issues related to the development and implementation of technologies, analysis of "big data" and forecasting, the creation of new ways of management, etc. This program should solve one of the tasks of strategic importance – the preservation of sovereignty against the backdrop of globalization and the implementation of digital development programs with other participants in the world market.

According to the Program, the digital economy is understood as a set of social relations that develop when using electronic technologies, electronic infrastructure and services, technologies for analyzing large amounts of data and forecasting in order to optimize production, distribution, exchange, consumption and increase the level of socio-economic development of states (The Government of the Russian Federation, 2017).

Note the distinctive features of the digital economy in Figure 1 below.

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In Russia, there are 5 key directions for the development of the digital economy until 2024 (Figure 2).

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In modern conditions, the transition to a digital economy is one of the main priorities of Russia's development, since it is the level of digitalization that shows the competitiveness of both the country as a whole and individual companies in the new technological order.

Digital technologies are accelerating their pace of development. Measures that can make a business more productive and innovative include: reducing costs, investing in basic infrastructure related to doing business, reducing trade barriers, facilitating the entry of new companies into the market, strengthening antitrust authorities and encouraging competition between digital platforms (Rogozhina, 2020).

Figure 3 shows the factors that contribute to the development of the digital economy.

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The digitalization of the economy is largely ensured by the automation of all processes and data processing technologies.

To create an information society, use the tools that promote digitalization and integration of all data flows, shown in Figure 4.

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Big Data (Big Data) is called " fuel for the new digital economy "(definition from the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program).

The task of Big Data is to store and manage large amounts of constantly updated information.

Big data technologies are widely used by organizations around the world to reduce costs and improve business efficiency.

Big data helps to solve such problems as:

• increase in labor productivity;
• accurate advertising and sales optimization;
• forecasting situations in domestic and global markets;
• improvement of goods and services;
• improved logistics;
• high-quality customer targeting in any business area and others (Urmin & Zageeva, 2017).

Problem Statement

The problem of the impact of the digital economy on the economic security of business is one of the most important and significant in the modern world.

In the course of the study, the theoretical and practical foundations of this issue were considered. This topic is interesting and promising for future research. In particular:

• The role of the digital economy in ensuring economic security;
• Digital economy development;
• The impact of the digital economy on the economic security of business.

Research Questions

In course of the study the following questions were raised:

• What is the role of the digital economy in modern conditions?
• What are the main trends in the development of the digital economy?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the digital economy?
• Is there a relationship between the digital economy and business security?

Purpose of the Study

The main purpose of this work is to study and analyze the digital economy in relation to the economic security of business, the key tasks of which are:

• explore and analyze the essence of the digital economy;
• identify the main trends in the development of the digital economy in the modern world;
• consider the digital economy in relation to the economic security of business.

Research Methods

The methodological basis of the research is qualitative general scientific methods, the description of which is published in any sources, for example, " Methods and means of scientific research: studies. manual", written by Kolmogorov in 2017 (Kolmogorov, 2017).

The article uses such methods as the study and analysis of Internet resources and literary sources, observation (research) of trends in the development of the digital economy in the modern world, data description, processing of results in the form of diagrams, tables, diagrams.

Findings

Speaking about the development of the digital economy, it is necessary to consider the impact of the digital economy on the economic security of business.

In fact, they are directly interrelated, since the digital economy is an economic activity based on digital technologies, involving the availability of electronic goods and services produced by e-business and e-commerce. The electronic age. Any problems in the system, leakage of any information entail risks of economic, financial, and information security of the business.

In addition, the digital modernization of traditional manufacturing and service industries, trade and procurement organizations, and related financial and logistics operations creates the basis for the formation of new markets and new market conditions, as well as new approaches to analytics, forecasting, and management decision-making. As a rule, the new always carries great risks (Zakharov, 2020).

The central element on which the entire digital economy is built is information.

Economy + ICT (Information and communication technologies) = Digital economy

Currently, security professionals tend to focus primarily on protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical information, as well as ensuring accountability (Plotnikova, 2018).

There is no doubt that the success of a business largely depends on the degree of its security. Therefore, it is extremely important to be able to quickly and regularly implement changes in the information infrastructure. Digital economy technologies model business, as well as processes and management, but people are the key resource for implementing an information security strategy. The direction of development of the digital economy is inextricably linked with education, the development of human resources.

Let us give as an example the methodology of Y. Rasmusena (Rogozhina, 2020), which most clearly reveals the importance of the person. According to its author, the total number of people employed in the economy is divided into three groups: "Knowledge" (high qualification, cognitive complex tasks), "Rule" (average level of qualification, cognitive routine tasks), "Skills" (basic level of education, mechanical tasks)/

A critical indicator for countries with a developed digital economy is the share of employees in the "Knowledge" category, which is 25 % (USA, Japan, Germany, Singapore, UK). Research conducted in October 2017 VSG-group, shows that in Russia only 17 % of specialists (scientists, IT engineers, doctors, teachers, managers) belong to the first group, who have highly developed competencies. The main share (48 %) of employees (accountants, lawyers, office administrators) belongs to the second group and 35% are low – skilled workers (salesmen, security guards, cleaners, drivers, etc.), which at this stage of development does not allow entering the group of countries with a developed digital economy.

Thus, the desire for the development of the digital economy and the implementation of its directions qualitatively transforms the basic resource-human capital. It follows from this that economic security necessarily depends on each individual person, on their contribution, behaviour, attitude to the task, their incentives and motivation, and sources of information (Borzunov, 2014).

Conclusion

Summing up, we note that the digital economy is the activity of creating, distributing and using digital technologies for collecting, storing, processing, searching, transmitting and presenting data in electronic form and related products and services. It is developing rapidly in Russian companies. That is why ensuring the economic security of business in the digital economy is one of the key problems in the modern world. Traditional management methods are fading into the background, and therefore, in order to survive in the digital economy, companies must turn into adaptive systems that allow them to effectively manage a whole range of risks, the main generator of which is a person.

When assessing the scale of digitalization in the modern world, it should be noted that the digital economy can be considered as a rapidly developing segment of the economic system, in which traditional economic relations and business process management models are replaced and supplemented by new electronic technologies of production, exchange and consumption.

Thus, the key essence of the digital economy is to speed up information processing processes, as well as to free employees from routine work.

Any innovation is fraught with both positive aspects that favourably affect the lives of enterprises and people, and negative aspects, risks that need to be taken into account in business.

So, let's look at them. The advantages of the digital economy include:

• reduce costs;
• increase in labour productivity;
• creating new jobs;
• reducing corruption;
• "transparency" of ongoing operations;
• transition to electronic money;
• reduction of errors that depend on the "human" factor;
• freelance development.

In addition, the digital economy has a direct effect on pricing, reducing the cost of goods, works or services. Despite the large number of advantages, in fact, there are a number of dangers from the introduction of digital technologies.

The disadvantages of the digital economy are:

• huge risk of information leakage;
• increase in the number of scammers;
• reduction and complete disappearance of unclaimed professions;
• reduction of employees due to the introduction of robotics in organizations;
• lack of experience and skills of working with the use of new technologies in the staff;
• unwillingness, inability or inability of some categories of citizens to use new technologies in practice (for example, the older generation has difficulty accepting bank cards and refuses to use them);
• the predominance of "machine" thinking over system thinking in children and others (according to the article "Digital Economy" program and its development in the Russian Federation).

Technical and technological, digital and socio-economic development of society generates new and previously unknown risks and threats. Therefore, the issues of ensuring economic security are vital and require close attention and study from a scientific point of view.

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