"Gazinformservice" and Selectel Team Up to Strengthen SOC Protection

2024: Providing Computing Infrastructure

Selectel provided a secure computing infrastructure for the company's Security information security Operations Center SOC. " Gazinformservice Selectel announced this on August 19, 2024.

SOC "Gazinformservice" provides services for monitoring and response to information security events, which involves the construction of a highly loaded computing environment with a high degree of availability, fault tolerance and security of the processed data. Various implementations of secure computing infrastructure were considered in the SOC design. The choice was made in favor of renting the allocated computing resources of a commercial data center. On the one hand, this made it possible to provide high information security requirements for SOC components, on the other hand, to obtain a rapidly scalable infrastructure with high availability indicators.

When choosing provider IT infrastructures , a decisive role was played by the high variability and efficiency in the provision of the necessary equipment, including funds certified according to safety requirements, information protection as well as the amount financial of rental costs.

As part of the project, Selectel deployed the installation from the selected servers arbitrary configuration and. storage systems Provider ensured secure network connectivity of the infrastructure to the customer's local site by providing dedicated network equipment, certified and firewalls space to host the customer's crypto gateways for enciphering traffic control. In the development of the project architecture backup , flexible management of the amount of computing resources was also provided. The infrastructure is located in isolated racks data center in Selectel, which corresponds to reliability level III. Tier

In establishing SOC, tremendous work has been done to design, deploy, test, and configure proprietary and partner advanced information protection solutions. A separate unit, the Monitoring Center, has been formed and staffed at Gazinformservice. Cooperation with Selectel made it possible to quickly solve the problems of obtaining computing resources, which significantly reduced the time for the creation of SOC, and less than a year after the start of the design, begin to provide services to the first customers, "said Konstantin Byzov, head of the security systems support center at Gazinformservice.

In the project, we managed to fulfill the customer's strict requirements for information security of the infrastructure, - said Andrey David, head of the customer security products department at Selectel. - We provided a reliable and secure infrastructure, which allowed Gazinformservice to be confident in the safety of its customers' data. With flexible management of computing resources, the customer can be confident that their needs will be addressed at any time without capital investment in the infrastructure.