Аннотация:The paper provides a detailed analysis of the risk groups encountered across the globe, i.e. the list of global risks threatening, among other nations, the Russian Federation. The list is supported by the data of surveys with both businessmen and population. All these risks appear to be linked with digitized economy and many result from negative effects of digitization. The paper emphasizes differences and variations in estimates of digitization effects changing with further developments in digital technologies and their omnipresence. The paper examines the instances of efficient risk management in operation of a number of companies. They are the so called innovator companies with highly flexible corporate policies. Analysis of measures taken by these allows determining the principles of risk management based on digitization and digital technologies. In conditions of instability risk management becomes integral to both corporate culture and government policy and intrinsic to rational behavior. Risk management itself undergoes transformation while staying an effective tool for solving global problems at all levels. The paper identifies principles to be followed in managing risks in conditions of digitized economy both at the level of an individual organization and at the level of a nation.