Primary Objectives of the Activities of Actors Ensuring National Security

The article is devoted to clarifying the key tasks of the actors ensuring national security, taking into account modern understanding of national security and its provision. Based on the analysis of current scientific literature, the authors highlight the approaches of Ukrainian scientists to the understanding of the complex of tasks of ensuring national security, which are consistent with the modern doctrine of national security and its provision. Considering the scientific views on the structure of the tasks of ensuring national security, seven main groups of the objectives of the national security entities are outlined. It is concluded that these targets envisage planning, creation, improvement and monitoring (in particular, for clarity and legal certainty, consistency and adaptability, taking into account complex and dynamic features of modern risks and challenges faced by the national security actors) in national security law making, and the results of standard-setting.