Rosatom, following Rostec, refuses iPhone

2023: Moving employees to Android devices

Following the Rostec State Corporation, Rosatom refuses smartphones manufactured by the American company Apple. This was reported on September 18, 2023 in Kommersant with reference to representatives of Rosatom. According to them, the abandonment of iOS is necessary to achieve technological independence and additional stability of the information infrastructure of the state corporation.

Rosatom, following Rostec, refuses iPhone

The fact that the state corporation Rosatom began to transfer employees using iPhones to Android devices was told by three sources of Kommersant in the IT market. According to them, the corporation plans to abandon the use of corporate applications on devices based on iOS OS by the end of 2023 and focus on the development of service software products on alternative OSs.

The fact that Rostec employees are being transferred to Russian smartphones after the introduction of a ban on the use of iPhones in state corporations became known in early September 2023. In general, according to representatives of the state corporation, the refusal of Apple increased its cybersecurity.

"Employees who used Apple equipment have certain inconveniences," Rostec shared. - You have to get used to new devices and interfaces. But the problem is not massive, not critical and temporary. "

In mid-July 2023 the introduction of the ban was reported , for employees to use iPhones and other Apple devices for business purposes finance ministries in and. power engineering specialists Russia A similar ban at that time was already in effect in, and Ministry of Industry and Trade Ministry of Digital Development "."Rostec

Employees of state corporations can store quite critical information on their devices, including data about developments, so abandoning the iPhone "looks logical," said CorpSoft24 leading engineer Mikhail Sergeyev. At the same time, in his opinion, it is possible to really improve security "only using its own developments, FSTECFSB certified/operating systems, while Android is not and also poses a threat."^[1]

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