Rostelecom has strengthened data protection of Tomskenergosbyt

2024: Communication Channel Protection Upgrade

Rostelecom, together with Solar Group, has improved the protection of communication channels between 46 Tomskenergosbyt facilities in the Tomsk Region. Rostelecom announced this on February 14, 2024. The operator has installed cryptosyncases in all territorial divisions of the client that will ensure the inviolability of the company's data transfer at all levels of the network. The used cryptographic information protection tools (CIPF) are certified by the FSB of Russia.

According to federal legislation (No., No. 152-FZ 187-FZ), state bodies enterprises, critical information infrastructure as well as organizations, and health care power financial industries it is necessary to use GOST-enciphering transferred. data

Rostelecom has connected the customer with the GOST VPN service, which is based on solutions certified by the regulator. Data is encrypted using domestic cryptographic algorithms, which ensures the confidentiality and integrity of information transmitted over open communication channels. The solution allows you to organize secure interaction between geodistributed objects.

Service provider GOST VPN - Solar Group, architect of comprehensive cybersecurity. Key areas of activity are information security outsourcing, development of own products, training of information security specialists, analytics and research of cyber incidents.

We offer our customers a convenient solution for the organization and further operation of secure networks. Rostelecom provides the customer with equipment, configures it and takes on further service support, i.e. the operation of communication channels and CIPF is carried out in one window mode. For this activity, our company has the necessary licenses of the FSB of Russia, - said Alexey Makhorin, director of the Tomsk branch of PJSC Rostelecom.

After connecting the service, the client gets access to his personal account, where he can view the office connection scheme and the CIPF availability status, download the GOST VPN work report, quickly contact his personal manager or send an application for technical support.

When concluding an agreement on the service model, our customers do not need to spend money on the search and purchase of equipment and software, we will do everything ourselves. Let's select the best option suitable for the request of the counterparty, - said Ksenia Kalinina, director of work with corporate and state segments of the Tomsk branch of PJSC Rostelecom.

The parameters of the GOST VPN service were adapted to the requirements of the customer's parent company. This experience has been successful, and now the solution is being scaled to other companies in the group, taking into account the peculiarities of each of them. We thank the customer for their trust and will be glad to continue cooperation, - commented Vladimir Shcherbinin, head of the Tomsk division of the Solar JSOC Cyber ​ ​ Attack Center, Solar Group of Companies.