At the moment, in the conditions of an actively developing information society, information is becoming a necessary factor of production, therefore ensuring the safety of data is an important issue. The article is devoted to the topical, today, problems associated with threats in the field of data storage. The definition of the concept of threat in the field of data storage is given; classification by types of threats is proposed; the following classes of threats in the field of data storage are distinguished: spatial, communicative, destructive; the actual components of threats are described. Based on the analysis of threats in the field of data storage, algorithms for ensuring the safety of information will be developed in the future.

Keywords: information, data, data storage, data safety, data integrity, data storage threats, data integrity threats