FCS is working to strengthen the security of its IT system after cyber attacks

2023: Enhanced IT security

Federal Customs Service (FCS) is working on strengthening cyber security its IT system and has attracted third-party experts for this. TASS This was announced on May 2, 2023 by the interim head. FCS Russia Ruslan Davydov

We have expanded the range of external organizations that help us. The initiative was shown by Sberbank. In May 2023, we had a very powerful pool of experts - there are Sber, Kaspersky, and other organizations that are working to strengthen the security system. It is better to adapt it to already known or new threats that may appear in the future, - said Ruslan Davydov.

The federal customs service had to stop the work of customs services from April 10 to 12 due to a powerful cyber attack. Earlier, Davydov reported that since the beginning of the SVO, more than 1,200 cyber attacks have been committed to the service, three to four a day.

To counter attempts to steal commercial information data in the FCS are ciphered and are transmitted only through secure channels. communications According to Ruslan Davydov, all connections in the Federal Customs Service go to the crypto gateway "," Continent which is certified by the Federal Security Service of the FCS FSTEC^[1]

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