Rostelecom DPC ensured uninterrupted operation of the federal DEG system

2023: Ensuring the operability of the DEG system infrastructure

From September 8 to September 10, 2023 Russia , a federal one was used on a single voting day (EDG) in 24 subjects. remote electronic voting system (DEG) The operability of the infrastructure provided provider IT a full-cycle service. " Rostelecom DPC This was announced on September 14, 2023. "Rostelecom

The DEG infrastructure is located in several data centers of the company, which are part of the largest geo-distributed network of data centers in Russia. The sites meet the Tier III reliability level - this means that all elements of the engineering infrastructure, including power and cold supply, telecommunication routes, fire extinguishing and monitoring systems are reserved. Communication channels between all sites are also reserved. Thanks to this, data centers ensure uninterrupted operation of the federal DEG system even in case of incidents and repair work.

The infrastructure of the system, like all services of the company, is developing in accordance with the strategy of import independence. Over the past year, domestic solutions have been introduced into the blocks of virtualization, data transmission networks and information security.

During the voting, more than 30 thousand attacks on DEG web services and more than 15 attempts at complex targeted impacts on infrastructure were recorded, which indicates the targeted interest of cyber attackers in the system. All attacks were successfully repelled, no negative impact on the operation of the DEG was recorded.

DEG is a special infrastructure project that the Rostelecom team is implementing from scratch starting in 2021. In the system, we provide for maximum reliability and fault tolerance so that such an important event for the country as an election takes place without failures even with high load and attacks by attackers, "said Evgeny Simonin, Operations Director for Rostelecom DPC Operations.

The DEG federal system was developed by "Rostelecom" by order of the CEC of Russia and the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation.