Sheremetyevo has introduced a domestic cyber defense system

2023: Implementation of a domestic cyber defense system

Sheremetyevo Airport on March 28, 2023 announced that in order to increase the level of information security and in pursuance of the decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On additional measures to ensure information security," it put into operation a domestic system for monitoring information security events and a subsystem for sending information to State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks (State system for detecting, preventing and eliminating the consequences of computer attacks).

The SIEM system (Security Information and Event Management) and the subsystem for sending information to State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks provide:

• a set of information on the main events of the information security IT infrastructure of the airport;
• prompt identification and response to information security incidents, subsequent investigations;
• analysis of computer incidents and taking measures to prevent them;
• organization of interaction with the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NCCCI) in terms of detection, prevention and elimination of the consequences of computer attacks;
• automation of functions for accounting and recording of computer incidents;
• regularly updated expertise of new types of cyber attacks and ways to identify them.

Ensuring a high level of information security is one of their priorities in the activities of Sheremetyevo Airport. In this area, an active transition to current software of domestic production is being carried out within the framework of the import substitution program.

In 2022, at Sheremetyevo Airport, due to the successful work of specialists in the field of information security and the use of technologies, about 2.4 thousand attempts to introduce into the IT infrastructure were prevented, which did not cause damage and were successfully localized. Sheremetyevo provided continuous regular services for passengers and airlines.