Elvis-Plus
Since 1991
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
124498, Zelenograd, passage 4806, 5, p. 23
Top managers:
Ivashkov Yury Vitalyevich
Owners:
RTC Information Security (RTC IS) - 49%
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Owners
Main areas of activity
- Implementation of large-scale integration projects for the creation of secure information systems (ZIS), such as the integrated information security system of the corporate network of NK Lukoil, the integrated communication banking network of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and others;
- Development of integration solutions for creation and support of secure information systems in heterogeneous networks of any organizations (including those with geographically remote facilities). The company develops solutions based on information protection products, including its own;
- Consulting in the field of building secure information systems, including design consulting and certification of information objects.
Performance indicators
2021: Decrease in revenue by 25.3% to RUB 1,184 million
At the end of 2021, Elvis-Plus 's revenue amounted to 1,184 million rubles, a decrease of 25.3% compared to 2020, which allowed it to take 193rd place in the ranking of TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2022. The revenue from the financial statements for 2020-2021 is indicated. excluding VAT.
History
2022: Alexander Galitsky's withdrawal from the founders
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on January 1, 2022, Galitsky Alexander Vladimirovich resigned from the founders of Elvis-Plus.
2020
Revenue - 1,585 million rubles
At the end of 2020, Elvis-Plus's revenue amounted to 1,585 million rubles.
Rostelecom acquires 49% stake in Elvis-Plus
On August 31, 2020, Rostelecom announced plans to acquire 49% of Elvis-Plus, one of the oldest Russian developers of products and solutions in the field of information security. Alexander Aivazov, vice president for business development at Rostelecom, said that the deal will be closed in the next few months. The companies did not disclose its amount.
The share is acquired through Rostelecom RTK IB, which represents the company's information security cluster, which was formed at the end of 2018. At the same time, according to Alexander Aivazov, a strategy for the development of information security business in Rostelecom was formulated.
The 51% share of Elvis-Plus will remain with the founder of the company, Alexander Galitsky, the creator of the Almaz Capital Partners fund. He stressed that Elvis-Plus now focuses on a wide range of technologies - from developing a crypto-SIM card to creating protocols to protect against attacks built on quantum computing.
Galitsky believes that "connecting with the power of Rostelecom, which has quite strong positions in the Russian market in the field of telecommunications, the introduction of information systems" in the public sector and the commercial sector will lead to new achievements in the field of creating technologies and projects.
And for Rostelecom, this deal means the opportunity to develop the information security sector faster and more actively, said Igor Lyapunov, vice president of information security at the company. For the market, in his opinion, such partnerships mean its development and strengthening of Russian technologies.
Igor Lyapunov clarified TAdviser that after the closure of the transaction, Elvis-Plus will retain its independence, including in terms of intellectual property.
 | Speaking about the current transaction, we are talking about a business partnership, and in this sense, the transfer of intellectual property, the extraction of it from Elvis-Plus is not supposed. We make a partnership for the sake of synergies, for the sake of creating new joint projects. For us, of course, synergy is extremely important. And which of the parties receives this or that project result will be determined by specific products, directions, and so on, "he said, answering a TAdviser question. |  |
Speaking about which Elvis-Plus products are of the greatest interest to Rostelecom's information security business, Igor Lyapunov said that a serious analysis of the company's technological capital was carried out, and we can talk about the serious maturity and high quality of its technologies. Lyapunov highlighted the flagship Zastava product to protect corporate information systems at the network level using VPN technologies. It is planned to be used. The second part is the developments that are that will be produced.
Lyapunov noted that information security for Rostelecom is one of the 3 largest areas of business. The other two are telecommunications and data centers. In addition, information security is now one of the fastest growing areas of the company's business, it grows about twice a year, which is higher than the growth of the information security market as a whole, Lyapunov noted.
Organizationally, Rostelecom information security business is represented by 3 components: this is an information security service provider, system integration and a technology development unit, where Rostelecom acts as a vendor. Entering a partnership with Elvis-Plus, the company strengthens the two components of its information security business, says Igor Lyapunov. The first is to strengthen the research, scientific and technological base and, accordingly, the development of new products. And the second part is the experience of implementing complex projects.
Customers of Rostelecom information security solutions and services, according to Lyapunov, are represented by the largest Russian companies, including the financial sector and corporations, which need to protect critical infrastructure. Also, Rostelecom solutions are used to protect public administration systems. The company also works in the mass commercial market, supplying products and services to small private companies.
The development of the information security direction in the company is a response to new challenges, to new threats, Igor Lyapunov explained. Now cyber attack tools are beginning to be used not only for the purpose of monetization, but also for the realization of state interests. Attacks on state systems are growing. And this is another level of qualification and grouping tools that are not detected by standard information security tools.
According to Igor Lyapunov, in 3 years Rostelecom plans to invest about 4 billion rubles in information security technologies: these are its own projects and in partnership with other players. The company has plans to acquire more tech companies. Rostelecom is especially interested in technologies for detecting and responding to cyber attacks, security control, access control, telecom infrastructure protection, artificial intelligence and a number of others.
2019
According to the database of legal entities Kontur.Fokus, "in 2019, Elvis-Plus's revenue amounted to about 545 million rubles, having decreased by about 15% compared to 2018.
2017: Cryptographic Security Division
In June 2017, Elvis-Plus announced the creation of a cryptographic protection body (CPD) in its structure, the main area of work of which is to solve problems related to the use of CIPF in organizing and ensuring the security of storing, processing and transmitting confidential information through communication channels in organizations and enterprises of the customer.
In the era of global digital transformation, there has been a rapid increase in the number and types of CIPFs used by government and corporate customers. At the same time, the procedure in force on the territory of the Russian Federation imposes strict restrictions and requirements on all stages and conditions for the use of encryption (cryptographic) means. The implementation of the established requirements is often a difficult task for many organizations that simply do not have their own resources to carry out such work, and, most importantly, specialists with the necessary level of qualifications. The current situation and the results of inspections intensively carried out by the FSB of Russia in recent years confirm the numerous comments and deviations it has identified.
The OKZ specialists are entrusted with the performance of a set of works, including the development of a scheme for organizing information protection telecommunication the customer's cryptographic systems; organization and coordination of CIPF operation works, including during inspections by regulators; monitoring the status, control and assessment of the effectiveness of the information protection measures taken; centralized CIPF accounting and user training; organization and implementation of control over compliance with the conditions of use of the used certified cryptographic means and many others.
2011
Performance indicators
For three crisis years, the company was engaged in restructuring, the result of which, as Elvis-Plus CEO Viktor Lebedev said, was a fivefold increase in the company's annual turnover, which, according to the adopted plan in 2011, will amount to 1 billion rubles, while 60% of the turnover will be the cost of equipment supplied, and 40% - the cost of work performed. The company considers this billion a new frontier - the transition to the category of a larger business[1]
Talking about the structure of corporate business, the executive and financial director of Elvis-Plus, Viktor Basin, said that 41% of the company's turnover falls on clients from government agencies (the main of which is the Central Bank of the Russian Federation: it accounts for 27% of the share of all state customers), and 59% - on the private sector.
Of the largest projects in 2011, Sales Director Maxim Filippov noted the project in Rosreestr, participation in the creation of the information and analytical center of the government of St. Petersburg, projects in the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, in the Federal Grid Company, Rostelecom and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
Among the main partners in the supply of equipment and solutions, Basin noted the companies:
- HP,
- Cisco,
- 'Aladdin R.D.',
- 'CryptoPro ',
- Positive Technologies,
- 'Kaspersky Lab ',
- InfoWatch,
- Oracle,
He also recalled that approximately 15% of the total cost of supplies in projects is the cost of Elvis-Plus's own products.
Results of the year
- Enter into partnerships with US-based McAfee. The expertise and expertise of Elvis-Plus's highly professional team of experts meets McAfee's ElitePartner requirements. For McAfee, cooperation with Elvis-Plus will allow you to present your information security developments to a wide range of large corporate clients in Russia with whom Elvis-Plus works. In addition, Elvis-Plus experts will adapt solutions to Russia's numerous state and industry standards in the field of information technology.
- In November 2011, Elvis-Plus promises to achieve revenue in 2011 of 1 billion rubles. due to the law "On Personal Data" that came into force and the expected entry into force of the "Law on Electronic Signature." It is known that Elvis-Plus carried out projects in RAO UES of Russia, in large electric generating companies RusHydro, OGK and TGC and from electricity suppliers (FGC UES and SO UES). In addition, the integrator has several projects in Rusnano.
According to the deputy general director of the integrator Sergei Vikhorev, the expected twofold growth of the company will cause three factors: the need to ensure the security of personal data, the entry into force of the law "On Electronic Signature" (63-FZ) and the need of government agencies for information security solutions when creating public services.
- In November 2011, Elvis-Plus celebrated its twentieth anniversary. As the creator and president of the company, Alexander Galitsky, said, Elvis-Plus remains his favorite creation, which was created at a time when our country did not yet understand what business was [2]
Answering the question about the difficulties of doing business that had to be faced over twenty years of doing business in Russia, Galitsky said that the small size of its IT market primarily hinders the development of business in our country. In his opinion, this, as well as the large social payments that businesses have to pay to the state, characterizes Russia as a place where it is difficult for entrepreneurship to develop. He noted that in the post-Soviet space, as the multilateral interaction of the former Union republics develops, entrepreneurs will go where more favorable conditions for them will be created. The struggle for registration of companies will intensify (i.e. for taxpayers), and it may happen that half of Moscow companies will eventually legally move to Astana or Minsk.
| | If Russia wants to enter the top 10 innovative leaders, it still has a lot to do to create a favorable climate for business. First, you need to just open and close the company here. For example, in Europe or the United States, you can register a company without physically being in the country of registration. You need to fight not with the leakage of minds, but for their influx. People will go where they are better, "Galitsky said. | |
In our country, too, according to his observations, there are places where business feels quite cozy. As an example, he mentioned Kazan, where people from neighboring regions willingly come to work.
In general, the president of Elvis-Plus believes that today there is only one barrier for doing business - political borders, which require passports and visas to cross, dictating the time spent in the country. Everything else - money, technology, knowledge, talent - can be found in a variety of places. As for Elvis-Plus, according to him, today it makes no sense to open an office in the United States or any other foreign country, because the company is focused on Russian legislation, local business rules and technologies specific to Russia.
Talking about the immediate development prospects, Galitsky stressed that the company's plans take into account significant changes in the Russian information security market, related, according to his estimates, to the fact that information security begins to cover a very wide range of tasks, the search for a solution to which will become the dominant IT development in the coming years. First of all, he called the provision of information security in the process of providing IT as a service, in social networks and in virtualized IT environments.
For his part, Deputy General Director for Development of Elvis-Plus, Sergei Vikhorev, recalled that over the past two years the country has been living under the influence of a powerful message from regulators regarding the protection of personal data, which, in his opinion, will only increase. Another relevant direction in the field of information security, according to his observations, in the near future will be the protection of APCS. He said that Elvis-Plus participates in a number of works in this area, collaborating with the FSTEC of the Russian Federation. The peculiarity of information security work in this area, according to him, is that it is not necessary to fight against leaks, but for the integrity and availability of information.
2008
In 2008, Elvis-Plus creates and begins to work with a set of standard solutions and services aimed at ensuring the protection of personal data, in accordance with the requirements of Federal Law No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data."
2007
In the period 2007-2008, the company completely updates the Zastava line of VPN network security products. Thus, a new version of Zastava 5.2 is being released on the market, significantly superior to the previous version in terms of technical characteristics, which allows it to change the well-proven version 3.3. A little later, the company introduces a new firewall "Zastava-S" for use in information systems that process information constituting a state secret.
2006
In 2006, the company celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. By this time, Elvis-Pluses of organizations, mainly large domestic companies of various business sectors and government organizations, have become Elvis-Plus clients, the company has acquired many partners with whom it works today.
2005
Since 2005, Elvis-Plus has been the first Russian company in the field of information security to use the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) standard developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) industrial standards committee.
In the same year, Elvis-Plus, having become a technological partner of IBM, presented the Basic Trusted Module "Mobile Client" - a new software and hardware complex integrated on the basis of the IBM ThinkPad laptop. For the first time in Russia, this solution uses the built-in IBM ESS security system, the so-called "security chip," implemented according to the TPM specification developed by the TCG industrial standards committee.
The Company continues to actively cooperate with the Bank of Russia. During this period, design work is being carried out and work is being carried out on the implementation of the Information Security Subsystem of the system "Analysis of the Activities of Regional Institutions of the Bank of Russia" (PIB ADTU) is being carried out both for the central component and for the regional components of the PIB ADTU (for regional departments (TU) of the Bank of Russia).
In 2005-2007, Elvis-Plus implemented a series of projects to build a public key management infrastructure, the largest of which is the creation of a public key management infrastructure and a single smart card entry point system at Lukoil-Inform.
2004
In 2004, for the first time in Russia, the company conducts a pre-insurance external examination of the security of the Information System of the Faktura.ru Electronic Document Processing Center, as part of a promising project for insurance of the processing business Faktura.ru.
In 2004, the company continues to develop and is one of the 50 largest IT companies in Russia according to the Expert RA Rating Agency.
2002
In 2002, as part of the development of cooperation with the Bank of Russia, the company's specialists conducted research on the topic: "Research on the areas of improving the stability of functioning, efficiency and efficiency of management of the ITBS of the Moscow Region" and the PIB ITBS project of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation of the Moscow Region is being implemented.
As part of the creation of the Russian Aluminum Management corporate information resource protection system, projects are being implemented to build an information protection system for the company's corporate network, create an information security management center, develop a fault-tolerant access system for online management of the company's Information Security Center server, and outsource information protection in the computer network.
In the same year, Elvis-Plus struck up a serious relationship with the Russian Emergencies Ministry and conducted research on the topic: "Development of elements of a mathematical model for ensuring the security of information resources." As part of this work, Elvis-Plus, together with the All-Russian Research Institute of Emergency Situations and the Security Council of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, is developing the "Information Security Concept of the Russian Emergencies Ministry."
Also in 2002, work is being completed to create the largest secure wireless data network in Russia for RAO UES of Russia. This project causes a great resonance in specialized media, because the created network is the largest wireless office network in Russia at that time.
Elvis-Plus is launching a series of new services on the market, including the information security audit service, which is becoming one of the main activities of the company and its business card, thanks to its own unique methodology for assessing information security threats.
In the period 2002-2003, large-scale projects for commercial and government agencies are being carried out, the most interesting of which are:
- creation of a secure data transmission system (SPDS) "Reference Network" covering 21 organizations of RAO "UES of Russia";
- audit of Rostelecom's corporate system;
- development of a manual on information protection when creating and putting into operation automated systems for the EMERCOM of Russia, focused on the phased construction of an integrated information security system;
- examination of the information security status of the automated system for managing financial and economic activities of Channel One;
- a survey of TATNEFT's corporate network, a list of priority measures aimed at ensuring information security was also proposed and a "Strategic Plan for Building SOBI for the Period 2003-2006" and much more were developed.
2001
In 2001, Elvis-Plus continues to actively cooperate with one of its oldest customers, the Bank of Russia, for which a research and development project is being held on the topic "Determining the directions and ways to ensure information security of the ITBS of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation of the Moscow Region," and the information security subsystem (PIB) ITBS of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation of the Moscow Region is being designed.
In addition, close cooperation continues with other long-time customers - NK Lukoil (creating protection of the resources of the first of the foreign representative offices and a communication channel with the parent company NK Lukoil) and OJSC Russian Aluminum Management (more than 10 subsystems of the company's information security were built).
In January 2001, the company's specialists commissioned a subsystem for protecting information resources of the Central Office of RAO UES of Russia.
In the same year, the creation of an integrated information security system of the ARKO Group of Companies with a single management center and information protection system of the municipal bank Peter the Great is being completed.
2000
In 2000, there was growing interest in Elvis-Plus in the public sector. Work is carried out to protect information in distributed IVS for PMT AVPK Sukhoy"." The Company is designing and putting into operation systems information security for State the Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions Corporation and for Russian Aluminum Management OJSC. The tender is won and supplies are made under the State Order of Funds information protection for the Federal Border Service. Russia
Work in the fuel and energy complex is becoming traditional - information protection systems are being implemented in the Nizhny Novgorod Territorial Administration Lukoil"" and in the company LLC Chelyabnefteprodukt"."
1998 – 1999
The time when many companies close, Elvis-Plus continues to increase momentum. The company successfully copes with the functions of the general contractor for the design of a secure information and telecommunication system (ITBS) for the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the Moscow region. In the same year, work is nearing completion on the creation of an information protection system at the Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the Tver Region, and the research work "Creation of an information protection system in the LAN of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Russia" was carried out for the GVC of Power. Together with RAO UES of Russia, the company's specialists are developing the "Safety Concept of the IVS RAO UES of Russia," implementing information protection systems in the Office of the Governor of the Kursk Region, in Mosgorgeotrest, in Lukoil, in the State Research Center of the Russian Federation VNIINM named after Bochvara.
At this stage of development, Elvis-Plus is increasingly developing a consulting direction - the company is developing recommendations to increase the level of protection against unauthorized access to typical segments of the corporate network of the JSCB. " Rosbank Also during this period, technical projects are being developed and information protection systems are being created against unauthorized access to ZAO Lukoil - and Perm Lukoil - Kaliningradmorneft.
1996
In 1996, Sun Microsystems acquired from Elvis-Plus an OEM license for the worldwide distribution of PC SunScreen SKIP/E + software for Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 platforms.
1996-1997. During this period, the main efforts of the company are aimed at protecting the information networks of the credit and financial sector. Based on the analysis of threats, information protection systems are designed and put into operation (Medical Center of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, JSCB Inkombank, JSCB Neftekhimbank; KB "Russian Credit," KB "Vnesheconombank"), as well as in a number of other organizations.
Based on the analysis of the state of information security of the TSUP-M, the company's specialists develop the "Information Security Concept" and "Requirements for the LAN Security System."
| | We didn't resell anything - we tried to be among those who create it ourselves, "Galitsky recalled later in 2011. - We participated in pioneering developments of VPN, Wi-Fi and firewall technologies, since 1993 we began to use web technologies, were among the first Internet providers in Russia, in the 1990s we made a gateway for transmitting faxes outside the country. They began to specialize in information security since 1994, and began to engage in system integration in 1996. | |
1995
In 1995, Sun Microsystems certified Elvis-Plus for installation and service of SunScreen and SKIP products in the regions of Eastern and Northern Europe, the CIS, the Near and Far East. The following works have been performed on Sun orders:
- Desktop Management Interface (DMI) for Solaris 2.5 ;
- Testing and Bugs Fixing of Solaris Administration tool;
- A SKIP software product has been developed for a range of UNIX and MS Windows operating systems;
- A hardware and software complex SKIPbridge has been created for collective information protection of local networks.
In 1995, the company entered the Russian system integration market in the field of telecommunications, network and information technologies. At the same time, Elvis-Plus became the first Russian system integrator company to offer its customers services to create comprehensive information protection systems.
1994
The result of Elvis-Plus's work on the development of wireless computer networks is the acquisition in 1994 by the US government of a license for the production of high-speed radio modems developed by Elvis-Plus (patents for radio devices and antennas "Elvis-Plus" are included in the US Patent Fund).
Since 1994, Elvis-Plus has been involved in the development of hardware and software tools to protect IP networks from unauthorized access together with Sun Microsystems.
In 1994-1995, the company began its activities in the field of information protection. During this period, work is underway to develop the first version of its own information protection products, known as the Zastava trademark.
1993
Since early 1993, the company has provided teleconference access and e-mail services. In December 1993, Elvis-Plus opened its own - the first in Russia - World Wide Web server and offered its customers the full range of IP services. The growing number of private and corporate clients of the Internet service, their constantly growing requests for expanding the types and quality of services lead Elvis-Plus to the need to separate this type of business into a separate enterprise with the involvement of partners with a powerful telecommunications infrastructure.
1992
The basis of the collaboration between Sun Microsystems and Elvis-Plus was the signing of a License and Development Agreement between the companies in 1992 in connection with the start of research work by Elvis-Plus on the design of key elements of wireless computer networks under direct orders from Sun Microsystems.
Since the beginning of 1992, Elvis-Plus began to provide fax service services on the Internet.
1991
The Russian company Elvis-Plus (Electronic Computing and Information Systems) was founded in November 1991 in the suburbs of Moscow - Zelenograd - the leading Soviet and Russian science city in the field of domestic information technologies. It is at this time, at the next break in Russian history, when the defense industry falls into stagnation and collapses, that there is an urgent need to preserve and radically change domestic electronics.
This idea matures in the minds of a group of enthusiasts, young scientific and engineering leaders of the NGO ELAS of the Ministry of Electronic Industry of the USSR and which is the leading enterprise of the USSR in the field of creating electronic systems and complexes in the interests of space and other defense industries of the country.
The created team, headed by Alexander Galitsky, who at that time was the chief designer of two national programs and the head of the head department of the complex, also includes Alexander Sokolov, who worked at that time as the head of the department and Nikolai Tsarev, who headed one of the laboratories. The Elvis-Plus company begins its life path, having as a capitalization only deep knowledge and unstoppable persistence of its creators, however, as history will later show, this is quite enough for a successful start.
The purpose of the Elvis-Plus company is to form a team of highly professional specialists capable of developing new computer and information technology competitive in the world market according to Western quality standards under joint programs with the American corporation Sun Microsystems, as well as for the implementation of commercial projects in the field of telecommunications and network technologies.
1990
Alexander Galitsky, founder of Elvis-Plus:
| | I remember back in the 90s, when I tried to interest one of the creators of Sun Microsystems Bill Joy with a set of technical ideas, Bill looked at me and said: "Sasha, you have a lot of good ideas... But you know, it's important to understand one thing: the idea itself is worth nothing. The cost has its practical implementation. Therefore, let's choose one idea and implement it together. | |
Notes
- ↑ Billion of annual turnover "Elvis-Plus."
- ↑ [https://www.itweek.ru/business/article/detail.php?ID=135505 Billion annual turnover 'ELVIS-PLUSES'].
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