The article confirms the need for a systematic approach to the scientific justification of the electronic document management systems security(EDMS) and the relevance of the study, presents the results of the analysis of guidance documents regarding the development of mathematical models and existing experience, summarizes the procedure for the scientific justification of EDMS security, highlights the main trends in modeling today, a new approach to the construction of EDMS security models is proposed, defines its role and place in the existing theory and practice.

Keywords: Security models of computer systems, security policy, electronic document management system, systematic approach