INFORMATION SECURITY AT ASEAN IN A DIGITALIZED ECONOMY: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL APPROACHES

The object of the research is national and regional approaches to ensuring cybersecurity in the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the digitalized economy. The article describes features of the regulatory and institutional mechanisms of cybersecurity at the national and regional levels, and determines the role of the leading states of the region in shaping the digitalization vector of the economy. The methodological basis of the study includes systemic-structural, formal-logical and hermeneutical methods of scientific knowledge using special legal methods of cognition (comparative legal and historical legal). The national approaches of ASEAN member states in information security are determined by many factors, which affects the level of security in a specific state. However, state economies are interconnected and require harmonization of regulatory and institutional standards. At the regional level, initiatives so far cover the foreign policy aspect and consist of establishing sustainable relations, inter-agency cooperation and mutual assistance. The unification of standards will help achieve several goals: the sustainability of the digital economic system of the region, the growth of the qualitative and quantitative level of training, the increase in the investment attractiveness of the financial sector, and simplification of the procedures for creating FinTech companies. Singapore is taking the initiative in the region, however, Malaysia and Thailand are actively articipating in the integration processes, so it can be assumed that the active position of most ASEAN participants will help them quickly achieve the desired results