DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ENSURING THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY IN CONDITIONS OF SYSTEMIC CRISIS

Abstract

The article examines the role of digital tools in ensuring the economic security of entrepreneurial activity under conditions of systemic crisis, characterized by high uncertainty, dynamic risks, increasing digital dependence, and growing cyber threats. The purpose of the study is to systematize digital tools for ensuring economic security, determine their functional purpose and impact on the main components of enterprise security, and substantiate an approach to their comprehensive integration. The study considers digital security provision as an integral component of the enterprise’s overall economic security system aimed at protecting economic interests, information and digital resources, ensuring business continuity, and increasing adaptability to crisis impacts. Digital tools are systematized according to their functional purpose, including monitoring and data collection, analytics and forecasting, early warning, cybersecurity and information protection, digital trust and identification, digital management and coordination, and business continuity and resilience. The functional capabilities of artificial intelligence, Big Data, digital platforms, Early Warning Systems, and cybersecurity tools are determined. Their role in monitoring, risk assessment, threat forecasting, early warning, decision-making, and response is substantiated. It is proposed to consider digital tools as interconnected elements of a unified digital cycle «data → analysis → forecast → warning → decision → response», which contributes to reducing the time between threat emergence and managerial response. Based on the generalization, four interrelated functional roles of digital tools are proposed: analytical, preventive, protective, and adaptive. The analytical role involves transforming large data sets into an information basis for managerial decisions; the preventive role focuses on risk forecasting and early threat detection; the protective role provides counteraction to digital, information, and related economic threats; the adaptive role ensures operational adjustment of business processes, continuity, and recovery under crisis conditions. It is concluded that the effectiveness of digital economic security provision depends not on the number of implemented technologies, but on their functional integration and ability to transform data into timely managerial decisions. Further research should focus on developing methods for quantitative assessment of digital security