Bastion (bastion-tech.ru)

Bastion is engaged in information security. The company provides services in the field of security assessment of small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as tests for penetration into the company's system and further correction of vulnerabilities found.

Priority areas of the company's activity: data protection through careful examination and implementation of advanced technologies, development of new methods for auditing information security and innovative systems of protection against cyber threats.

History

2025: Opening a direction for working with government agencies and state-owned companies

Information security company Bastion on October 21, 2025 announced the opening of a direction for working with government agencies and state-owned companies (B2G).

The team was headed by Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Deputy General Director for B2G Bastion, an expert in the field of information security. Dmitry Romanchenko joined the Bastion team as deputy director of B2G, devoting his career to the development of the domestic information security market.

Strengthening the direction of B2G will ensure the transformation of the offer of information security services and services and its personalization to the requests of state customers and state-owned companies. Bastion sees his role as a business partner of government organizations and companies in the field of providing promising secure IT, ready to repel current cyber attacks. In addition, the updated vector of Bastion development will strengthen the position of all information security companies as part of the ICS Holding.

The public sector is one of the key drivers of the development of domestic technologies and. cyber security Our goal is to offer customers comprehensive services that ensure the dynamic development of their information environment, while emphasizing the high industry standards of information security and digital trust. The decision to create a B2G division at the company demonstrates Bastion's readiness to shape the global agenda on issues cyber security and is our contribution to protecting the country's digital future. We are confident that the joint efforts of business and the state will be the key to strengthening the technological and information sovereignty of Russia, - said Fedor Sevastyanov, General Director of Bastion.

Standing at the origins of such a large-scale and significant direction in the company means opening up new horizons and laying the foundation for long-term cooperation with the public sector. Working hand in hand with the best information security specialists and experts allows us to build a cyber defense strategy and form a common secure digital environment. The B2G direction in Bastion is designed to take part in solving strategically significant state tasks, strengthening cyber resistance at the national level, "commented Vyacheslav Vasiliev, Deputy Director General for B2G Bastion.

The Russian IT market is ripe for the consumption of high-quality integrated secure solutions. The work of the B2G-block is designed to change the approach to the implementation of IT, information security projects and build a new vector that will correspond to the current realities and demand in the market. Thus, we will be able to give customers and the state as a whole an updated palette of complex services and services, "said Dmitry Romanchenko, Deputy Director of B2G Bastion.

2023

Joining the Garda Holding

The developers of network and information security systems Garda Technologies, TechArgos, Weblock, Makves and Bastion have merged into the Garda holding. The technological capabilities of the participating companies form the basis of the network security ecosystem with an integrated service in the field of data protection and building secure networks. On August 8, 2023, representatives of the Garda group of companies shared this with TAdviser. Read more here.

Inclusion in the US sanctions list

On February 24, 2023, Bastion was included in ^[1] US SDN sanctions list. ^[1].

Russian IT companies that fell under US, EU and British sanctions in 2022-2024 TAdviser map

TAdviser has drawn up a map the Russian IT of -companies that fell under sanctions in 2022-2024. and USA EU. Britain It included, among other things, the Bastion company. The article about the map can be found here.

2019: Citadel invests in Bastion

Logo in 2021

On August 19, 2019, it became known that the manufacturer of funds for operational-search measures "(such SORM equipment should be installed by operators in accordance with) "Spring Law" "Citadel" Anton Cherepennikov invested in the Bastion company. According to the BBC's Russian service, Bastion is owned by the SEB chief's FSB son Boris Korolev, 23.

The Citadel entered the capital of the Bastion back in 2018. According to SPARK-Interfax, the holding owns a share of 51%, Boris Korolev - 25%. At the request of the BBC to the management of the holding, whether the interest in Korolev's company is connected with his father's place of work, the Citadel replied that "the personal life of employees and partners" is not commented on.

The main owner of the Citadel holding Anton Cherepennikov

The BBC press service of the Citadel said that Cherepennikov learned about the Bastion, as he maintains a constant relationship with Baumanka, of which he himself is a graduate. The startup itself in the holding is considered "promising."

Now I am betting on "young blood," from which new managers may appear in 10 years. ["Bastion"] are seven students of Bauman Moscow State Technical University. To teach them everything faster, inside the holding we give them small subcontracts... Thus, we download the startup from the inside, and the guys get real experience and develop expertise, - Cherepennikov himself said in an interview with Vedomosti in March 2019.

The BBC publication says that the Citadel holding is known for attracting immigrants from law enforcement agencies to cooperate. So, in 2017, the ex-head of the K department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (computer security) Boris Miroshnikov became the vice-president of the Citadel, later State Security General Sergei Efremov, who worked at the FSB Special Equipment Center, wrote to RBC and follows from open data^[2]

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