Foundations of a conceptual model of economic security threat sources at the national level

The article considers the main features of sources and subjects of threats to economic security at the national level as well as their relations to the national economic system’s objects (elements). The aim is to create an ontological basis for interpreting knowledge of typical and specific sources of threats to economic security at various levels and in various nodes of the system for ensuring economic security, including in the monitoring system for economic security, as stipulated in the Strategy for Economic Security of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030. Three main threat source types are considered: natural, technogenic, anthropogenic. The character, types of objects and motives or causes of the threat sources are described. Sources of information and tasks to be resolved in the course of preparing measures to counter threat subjects are noted. A generalized ontological scheme for monitoring sources of threats was developed. The novelty of the work lies in the systematization and structuring of the knowledge of the problem field, which must be mastered for comprehensive information and knowledge provision of counteracting the sources of threats to economic security. The proposed conceptual model can serve as a basis for the creation of information, ontological, cognitive and structural-functional models, as well as heuristics for agent-based modeling of the behavior of threat sources within the framework of automated support systems and decision-making for economic security on the national level.