The government of the Magadan region uses Rostelecom-Solar services to protect against DDoS and web attacks

2022: Protecting Online Resources with "Rostelecom-Solar"

On January 19, 2023, the Roste lecom-Solar company announced that it was protecting the online resources of the Government of the Magadan Region from cyber threats. The main sites of the regional executive authorities and subdomains are connected to the WAF (Web Application Firewall) web application protection service. Since March 2022, more than 1,600 attacks with a high degree of criticality have been identified with its help, which were unsuccessful. And the Anti-DDoS service provides uninterrupted access to the site for users.

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As a study by Rostelecom-Solar experts showed, in the first quarter of 2022, almost 80% of critical cyber incidents were associated precisely with attacks on the web. Hackers hacked sites for the sake of deface, and by mid-2022 they began to actively place malware on resources in order to infect users' computers. DDoS was also used to make socially significant sites inaccessible and create social tension in society.

has always been the Public sector focus, and malefactors attacks have increased significantly in 2022. Therefore, it safety infrastructures is impossible not to increase. It was the service model that was chosen, since it allows you to provide cyber defense services with experts, provider reduce the total costs of and cyber security make them planned. Almost a year of cooperation with Rostelecom-Solar has shown the effectiveness of such an approach to, and To IB-protection it is planned to expand cooperation, Minister of Digital Development and Communications of the Magadan Region Dmitry Mironenko.

Firewall Application Layer (WAF) provides protection Government web resources Magadan region against L7 level attacks (DDoS and OWASP Top 10 attacks) by identifying threat and blocking it. In particular, the service recorded unsuccessful attempts to make unauthorized requests to (- to the server SQL injections), fake the site page and inject code into it harmful (XSS attack), gain access to local to files servers (Path Traversal attack). If successful, hackers could gain access to confidential files, manage database web applications, and fake user requests.

Protection against DDoS attacks does not allow attackers to "clog" the communication channel with garbage requests and make the site inaccessible to legitimate users. Thanks to the service, the infrastructure of the state organization is able to withstand powerful attacks. In particular, malicious traffic came from the IP addresses of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States.

In 2022, the demand for online resource protection services is really growing, as highly professional attackers began to use web vulnerabilities as an entry point into the organization. Thanks to interaction with the information security service of the customer, the company promptly made changes to the firewall settings, forming blocking rules relevant to the web resource of the Government of the Magadan Region. Due to this, it was possible to minimize false positives and guarantee accurate blocking of malicious activities, noted Director of Regional Sales Development B2G Rostelecom-Solar Natalia Kim.