Evolution of approaches to determining the essence of economic security of enterprise

The stages of developing approaches to understanding the concept of economic security have been analyzed. The existing definitions of the essence of economic security of the enterprise are systematized, namely: ensuring the conditions for the protection of information; protecting trade secrets Protection from economic crime; protecting the company from the negative impact of the environment and the ability to avoid threats that adversely affect its activities. It is certain that part of security is also - the state of security of the enterprise in a market economy, under the influence of the external environment, which is constantly changing, regardless of the nature and scale or features of internal working conditions, as well as the state of development of the enterprise, characterized by sustainable economic growth and protection of its economic interests, which is a guarantee of various threats and losses in the external and domestic environment; a set of relationships that ensure the independence of the enterprise, the ability to constantly restore and develop; The process of ensuring the stability of the operation and security of the company; corporate resource of strategic importance. Based on the systematic definitions, the main achievements of domestic scientists on the disclosure of the essence of the category «economic security of the enterprise» have been schematically presented. The author proposed to define the essence of the economic security of the enterprise on the basis of a combination of systemic and process approaches. In addition, it is proposed to consider the economic security of the enterprise as a component of the architecture of the entire national economic security, due to the interconnectedness and interdependence of all the chains and sectors that form it and consider it as an ongoing process to ensure the conditions of operation of the enterprise under any external and internal environment, taking into account the clear interaction of all production and technological units, the formation of sufficient resources. This allows the company to maintain its financial and economic balance, consistently make a profit and achieve the goals and objectives of further development.