Information security in Rostec

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2023: Creation of a joint venture with Almaz-Antey concern in the Altius Lab information security area

The state corporation Rostec"" and the Aerospace Defense Concern Almaz Antey are creating a joint venture in the region. information security The parties, through specialized subsidiaries, became part of the shareholders of the company, Altius Lab which will deal with countering to cyber threats and increasing the level of information and technological security of facilities, transport infrastructure countries primarily in the field of air traffic management. Representatives of Rostec reported this TAdviser on April 17, 2023. More. here

2022: Withdrawal of cybersecurity competencies into a separate company "Information Security Reforms." The adviser to its head was the former deputy head of the information security unit of the FSB

As TAdviser found out in February 2022, Rostec will focus the competence of the state corporation in the field of information security in a separate company - Information Security Reform JSC. Until now, the functions of the Rostec competence center in this area have been concentrated in RT-Inform, IT-subsidiary of the state corporation. Read more here.

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Acquisition of exclusive rights to the Outpost computer attack detection system

On October 15, 2021, the Avtomatika concern, which is part of Rostec, announced that the state corporation, through their company, had become the copyright holder of the Outpost computer attack detection, monitoring and prevention system. Read more here.

Ban on using Zoom, Skype and WhatsApp to resolve work issues

As it became known in March 2021, Rostec employees were banned from communicating on Zoom, Skype and WhatsApp for work. Instead, it is proposed to use domestic products, including those developed by the state corporation itself.

According to RBC in the press service of Rostec, employees are prohibited from installing on corporate laptops and computers. These restrictions do not apply to employees' personal devices.

Rostec employees banned from using Zoom, Skype and WhatsApp for work

According to the source of the publication in the military-industrial complex (OPK), employees of the state corporation Rostec, as well as its subsidiary holdings and companies, should transfer work chats from the WhatsApp messenger to another service.

There has always been a ban on the use of foreign applications for working purposes at defense industry enterprises, but employees still used them "to speed up communication processes and their own convenience," said one of RBC's interlocutors.

With the growth of online events, "questions regarding safety and possible leaks have escalated," so the management decided to tighten the bans, the publication says.

According to the interlocutors of the publication, this decision was made after the announcement of the management of the WhatsApp messenger about changes in the privacy policy and the transfer of additional personal data of users to its parent company, Facebook. Rostec itself denies a connection with the new WhatsApp policy.

According to Alexei Lukatsky, an expert in the field of computer security, it is wrong to trust confidential correspondence with any services originally intended for the mass market, as well as those whose servers cannot be controlled, both foreign and domestic.

This creates risks. Such services can stop working at any time. They are not protected from data leaks or interference in their work by foreign countries, "he said in a conversation with RBC.[1]

2022: Kimsuky hacker group attack

On October 19, 2020, it became known about hacker attacks on military and industrial enterprises in. Russia A North Korean group of cybercriminals Kimsuky conducted malicious mailings in the spring, including through social networks, to obtain confidential information from aerospace and defense companies, Anastasia To the businessman Group-IB Tikhonova, head of the complex threats research department, said. More. here

2016: Cyber Threat Centre established

The Anti-Hacker Center or the Corporate Center for the Detection, Prevention and Elimination of the Consequences of Computer Attacks (CCPCA) in November 2016 began work in the structure of the state corporation Rostec"." The organization included specialists in. cyber security Their main tasks are round-the-clock tracking of malfunctions in computer systems at, military-industrial enterprises timely response to hacking attempts and blocking. cyber attacks More. CCPCA

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