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Scientific and Methodological Principles of Assessing the Efficiency of the Information Security Process Management of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: Cybersecurity and Intellectual Property

The aim of the article is to study the scientific and methodological foundations of assessing the efficiency of the information security management process of small and medium-sized businesses and develop recommendations for improving its efficiency in the face of growing challenges and threats to cybersecurity and intellectual property. The main research methods were: analysis, synthesis, generalization, tabular, graphical, and integrated approach. The importance and necessity of timely assessment of the efficiency of the information security management process of small and medium-sized businesses due to the growing cyberthreats to their intellectual property as a basis for innovative development in a pandemic, war, digitalization was highlighted. The process of information security management for the protection of intellectual property (IPR) was substantiated as a reliable basis for innovative development of small and medium-sized businesses. Emphasis is placed on the growing importance, role and importance of cybersecurity for the functioning and development of small and medium-sized businesses in the face of new challenges and threats. A scientific and methodological approach to assessing the efficiency of the information security management process in the context of IPR protection of small and medium-sized enterprises in the conditions of a growing number of challenges and threats has been developed and proposed for use. Emphasis was placed on the expediency of a detailed study of directions for improving the regulatory framework for information security to protect the IPR of small and medium-sized businesses in the face of countering the cyber threats. Prospective directions of research on this issue were highlighted: development of information security strategy for IPR protection in the context of prevention of new challenges and threats; improving the organizational aspects of information security management for the protection of IPR; development of digital culture of small and medium-sized businesses as a factor in improving the efficiency of the information security management process in the face of digitalization challenges.