Means of countering threats in communication systems of broker companies

The manuscript considers the means of information technologies that allow solving the problem of counteraction to external threats caused by the use of communication systems in the activity of broker companies. Identified the main types of threats that inherent in brokerage activities in modern conditions. It was shown that the rapid growth of the level of these threats is generated by the high dynamism and instability of the global economy as a whole and the financial industry in particular, by the uncontrollable development of the means and organizational forms of cyber-crooks in the global information networks, and using of computer communication systems to provide work of brokers is the most important condition for the implementation of these threats. The analysis of technical tools offered by manufacturers to protect information systems and ensure effective trading activity in the financial markets in modern conditions, on the basis of which the composition of the system of means of protection of communication systems and activity of broker companies was offered.