Agro-Industrial Complex and F.A.S.S.T. signed a cooperation agreement

2023: Agreement to protect against cyber attacks

Agropromkomplektatsiya Group of Companies and F.A.S.S.T. signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of cybersecurity. Domestic developments of F.A.S.S.T for proactive search and protection against complex and unknown cyber threats have already been deployed in the enterprise infrastructure. F.A.S.S.T announced this on May 26, 2023.

Agropromkomplektatsiya Group of Companies is one of the backbone representatives of the industry with a closed production cycle "from field to counter." The company's production facilities are located in the Tver, Kursk, Ryazan and Moscow regions, the supply of finished meat, sausage and dairy products has been established in 42 regions of Russia.

At the same time, the GC is a clear example of an APK enterprise implementing the most advanced developments in the field of IT, business process management and production automation. The HA combines 15 geographically spaced locations, more than 3,500 workstations and 3,000 active users, the traffic processed exceeds 5GB/s.

To protect the digital perimeter of the Civil Code, the IT Department has been actively strengthening the team over the past two years and introducing the best domestic technologies that can replace foreign protection systems.

The main cyber threats for enterprises of the Russian agro-industrial complex in 2023, according to F.A.S.S.T., are attacks programs extortioners mailings, malware compromising access to corporate networks leaks databases and companies. One successful cyber attack can halt manufacturing processes and cause enormous financial damage.

It is obvious that high-tech crimes have long moved from the field of fiction to the real world, and in the foreground, preventive measures: the detection and elimination of probable cyber attacks instead of the usual post-incident response, "said Alexey Leonov, Director of the IT Department of the Agropromkomplektatsiya Group of Companies. - I am sure that together with F.A.S.S.T we will bring the processes of incident prevention to a qualitatively different level and set new information security standards in the industry, taking into account its specifics and trend for import substitution.

The implemented F.A.C.C.T solution for proactive search and protection against complex and unknown cyber threats has already demonstrated protection against targeted attacks by attackers, malicious mailings of ransomware, spy, ON trojans remote access.

The rapid growth in automation of the production of Russian agro-industrial complex enterprises, in addition to objective opportunities for successful development, also carries obvious risks, - said Valery Baulin, General Director of F.A.C.C.T.. - Given that in 90% of cases cyber attacks on the technological sector go through corporate networks, comprehensive protection of agro-industrial complex facilities should be able to detect cyber attacks at the preparation stage.