The article considers an essence of economic security. The most danger threats for economic security, that are lead to national economic degradation and deformation were also highlighted.
The article argues place and role of industry as an important subsystem of material production. Industrial sector with its wide network of horizontal and vertical cooperation links creates monolith economic field, pushes into economy turnover different territories, strengthens national relations. By the development of science-based and high-technology industrial branches Russia marks step-by-step leaving of raw material-based model of development, increases its demand of research and technological achievements, gets opportunity to have not only environmental but intellectual rent.