Implementation of the Zircon platform at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

27.05. 19. Director of the Information Technology Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Afanasyev M.Yu. gave an interview to the information and analytical portal Tadviser. The interview discussed the processes of import substitution of IT at the Russian Foreign Ministry. During the conversation, the head of the Department stressed that the entire process of import substitution of IT in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes place using the Zircon product line, the developer of which is the Russian company Swemel.

particular, we are talking about a project already being implemented at the Russian Foreign Ministry. This is a project to build a secure IT infrastructure of the ministry on the software of the Zircon line using domestic terminal access solutions.

In preparation for the implementation of this project, the following goals were set:

• ensuring the security of information circulating in the state information systems of the department;
• ensuring independence from foreign vendors;
• preservation of legacy applications when switching to domestic software;
• minimization of operating costs due to transfer of all AWS to terminals;
• possibility of simultaneous work with information of various degrees of confidentiality;
• optimization of software and hardware;
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• to the specifics of the department, the need to use software that does not require significant costs for retraining employees working in information systems.

result, the choice was stopped on terminal access technology using the Zircon integration platform, including the Zircon product line. It should be noted that terminal networks have already been deployed and are successfully operating in a number of foreign institutions, including those with access to multi-category information and with direct communication with central resources.