Evaluation of approaches to enterprise security management in crisis conditions

Issue: № 4, 2025

Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2025.4.13

Introduction. Enterprise security management is a holistic framework for measuring and responding to threats and risks faced by an enterprise. At the present stage, security management is an important part of the management of any enterprise, regardless of its size or industry. All stakeholders (board, management, partners, customers) support the need to create and manage an enterprise security system. Despite the existence of scientific research in the field of enterprise security management under crisis conditions, there is a need to systematize scientific approaches to this area. The purpose of the paper is to present a classification of approaches to enterprise security management in crisis conditions. Results. The approaches to enterprise security management in crisis conditions presented in the study relate to the modern period of economic development, which is accompanied by a corresponding composition of challenges and threats of various categories. The following approaches of this type were identified, in particular: a dynamic approach to enterprise security management in crisis conditions, which is based on complex models of integration of optimally accumulated resources and capabilities of responding to challenges and threats of industry companies in wartime conditions; a local self-regulating command approach to enterprise security management in crisis conditions (including under the influence of wartime conditions); a cyclical approach to the strategy for developing enterprise security management; a normative approach. Conclusion. Stating the results of the study, it is noted that the composition of existing approaches to company security management in crisis conditions may change due to the emergence of possible threats and corresponding risks. The development of new practices, the definition of new management solutions in this area as a response to crisis challenges necessitates the creation of new, including innovative approaches to the category under study. It is important to identify the types of crisis conditions in which company security management takes place. The recording of experience gained as a result of using the approach to company security management is an important informative base for the scientific community that conducts research on this issue.

Keywords : enterprise security management, crisis conditions, normative approach, cyclical approach, local self-regulatory team approach, dynamic approach

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