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The InnoSTage group of companies (Innostage LLC) operates in the market of cybersecurity, system integration and development of information systems and business solutions for enterprises of key sectors of the economy and the public sector.

General Director - Guzairov Aydar Failevich.

InnoSTage employs over 500 people (data from February 2020). More than 20 years experience of the specialists of the group of companies in the implementation of projects in the information security and IT market.

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The head office of the InnoSTage group of companies is located in Kazan at 420015, 60 Podluzhnaya St. There are also representative offices in Moscow, Krasnodar, Innopolis.

Services

The scope of competence includes the development and promotion of software products and services, as well as the provision of services for the adaptation, modification and implementation of software and hardware of world manufacturers.

The InnoSTage group of companies is represented on the IT market of Russia:

• system integrator Telecom Integration
• operator of cyber protection services CyberART""
• developer of business solutions of InnoSistema
• DigitalSuperhero business accelerator

Areas of activity:

• information security
• IT infrastructure and system integration
• development and implementation of business solutions, mobile development
• engineering and technical means of protection
• acceleration of projects and products in the prototype stage

The intellectual asset of the group of companies is its own laboratory of predictive analytics.

Performance indicators

2021: Revenue growth by 38.1% to RUB 7,764 million

At the end of 2021, the revenue of Innostage Group of Companies amounted to 7,764 million rubles, an increase of 38.1% compared to 2020, which allowed it to take 69th place in the ranking of TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2022.

History

2024

Repel 780 thousand address attacks

Innostage went through cyber tests on the Standoff Bug Bounty platform. Following the results of the six-month program, the company received a certificate from Cyber ​ ​ Testing JSC. The number of researchers trying to hack into the infrastructure of Innostage exceeded 930 people, including 4 Red team teams, winners of Russian cyberbits. The reward for a successful attack was 10 million rubles. The company announced this on December 6, 2024.

The cyber test program on the Standoff Bug Bounty platform lasts 6 months. During this time, white hackers must implement one of the unacceptable events that can critically affect the work of the company. The conclusion on the results of cyber tests is made by an expert council, including industry specialists from leading companies in Russia. For six months, Innostage withstood hundreds of thousands of targeted attacks, faced several major incidents, but this did not lead to the implementation of an unacceptable event - theft of money from the account.

{{quote "For six months of participation in the program, Innostage has demonstrated a high level of protection of its IT infrastructure. We were the first to go through this independent testing to show partners and customers Innostage's high level of digital resilience. Having received the certificate, the company confirmed its level of expertise in the field of information security and the ability to effectively protect the data of its customers, "said Aydar Guzairov, CEO of Innostage. }}

In the six months since the start of the cyber tests, Innostage specialists have repelled about 780 thousand attacks. During peak periods (June-July and October-November), the number of attacks reached 120-130 thousand per week. These attacks clearly demonstrate the current threat to IT systems and the need for enhanced protection.

Two incidents reported by Innostage specialists did not lead to the successful implementation of unacceptable events. So, in July 2024, one of the hackers organized a phishing newsletter, masquerading as the official correspondence of the company. In November, another researcher tried to infiltrate the company using a fake wi-fi point in the business center where one of the Innostage offices is located.

Starting the Innostage Network Security and Infrastructure Lab

Innostage has launched a testing laboratory for domestic network infrastructure and security solutions - Innostage Network Security and Infrastructure (INSI). The laboratory specializes in import substitution of the entire complex of equipment for building internal infrastructure: LAN, WLAN, EDGE and NGFW. The company announced this on August 26, 2024.

The main tasks of INSI include comprehensive testing of domestic vendors, assessment of their capabilities, collection of feedback from potential users and validation of closing business needs. Laboratory experts are doing a full range of work to replace network infrastructure and security solutions, including closing the missing functions in current solutions and the connected elements of IT and information security infrastructure. Upon completion of the migration, they can train all staff on a deployed digital twin that exactly repeats the real infrastructure.

The departure of foreign manufacturers has become a challenge for companies using their solutions in their infrastructures. However, the situation is not as dramatic as it might seem at first glance. Recently, Russian vendors have accumulated decent experience in the development and implementation of the main types of equipment. Their operational reliability is confirmed by practice. And our experience shows that it is quite possible to implement a full-fledged corporate network environment on these solutions. The market has an urgent need for high-quality expertise, therefore, to support organizations in solving the problems of building an import-replaced architecture, we have created a laboratory where our specialists work closely with Russian manufacturers to help improve their products, - said Almaz Mazitov, business leader of Innostage.

2023

Start bug bounty

Innostage announced on September 22, 2023 that it would check the level of protection of its own information infrastructure using the bug bounty program. Read more here.

Highlighting the direction of product development and promotion

Innostage on May 24, 2023 announced the allocation of a separate product area in its structure that will help customers systematically solve issues of digital sustainability.

In this area, Innostage will continue to actively develop the company's product line. All its products, as before, will distinguish the possibility of close integration and synergy that customers require to comprehensively solve problems at the intersection of information technology and cybersecurity. The direction was headed by Evgeny Fedorov.

Innostage specialists can develop the product line in full compliance with customer needs by providing rich integrator experience and practical skills in daily countering cyber threats acquired from Innostage CyberART.

The Innostage product line already includes several solutions working in Russian companies. Among them are the cybersecurity incident monitoring and response system Innostage IRP, the Innostage TI cyber threat information delivery system, solutions for working with analytical models, studying, visualizing and managing key cybersecurity indicators In-DAP. Most of the company's products are certified by Rospatent. The company plans to significantly increase the number of its own solutions.

Innostage will also direct efforts to further develop solutions and services within the Cybersecurity Academy.

Every year we implement more than 100 projects for customers throughout Russia, within the framework of which we have implemented Innostage solutions in their infrastructure, created in accordance with the highest development standards. Our products are optimal for customers to solve problems of import substitution of information protection tools, so the demand for them is actively growing, - said Evgeny Fedorov, head of the product department of Innostage.

Launch of a program to teach children cybersecurity in Tatarstan

Innostage on February 20, 2023 announced that it was launching a program in Russia to train children in cybersecurity, a pilot start was given in the Republic of Tatarstan. Within the framework of the project, classes will be held in schools, during which children will be able to expand theoretical and practical knowledge of how to protect themselves online. Thus, they will have the opportunity to figure out how the IT world works and find their place in it.

In the schools of the Republic of Tatarstan, the pilot project "Infourok: enter aichi and what is cyber security." The specialists of the Innostage Cybersecurity Academy held their first lesson at the secondary school in the village of Rich Sabi. The project was organized by the Innostage Cybersecurity Academy together with the University of Talents with the support of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan administration of the Sabinsky district, the federal party project "Digital Russia," the party "," United Russia-. ITdistributor RRC

Students of grades 7-10, their parents and teachers were able to take part in the classes. On information tutorials, they were able to get acquainted with the field of cybersecurity and understand the rules for safe work on the Internet. Innostage specialists discussed with teachers and parents of schoolchildren the issues of career guidance for children to help choose a profession for them in the field of cybersecurity.

Russia can be proud of achievements in the field of information services, - said the head of the Sabinsky municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan Rais Minnikhanov. - Our citizens can use numerous and modern online services. These services meet the needs of society and have long become part of our economy. Working with information technology has become prestigious and profitable. At the same time, the use of online services sometimes leads to data leakage for criminal purposes. It is important to protect our population from cyber fraud, protect wallets, personal data and the constitutional right to private correspondence.

Feedback from students, teachers and parents collected as part of the pilot project "Information: Enter it and what cybersecurity is" will be used by the Innostage Cybersecurity Academy to form a program of electives that can take place both in the Republic of Tatarstan and in other regions of Russia. This will help eliminate the shortage of personnel formed in the Russian information security industry.

For our company, teaching schoolchildren is part of the information security culture in Russia. This is a question of both protecting children and preparing a strong personnel potential in Russia. Students will not only learn how to safely use Internet services in everyday life, but will also be able to better understand how suitable work in the field of information security is for them. At the Innostage Cybersecurity Academy, we help train specialized specialists at all levels of education: we develop our own courses, create an educational cyber police, and develop an intercollegiate Security Management Center in Tatarstan, "said Aydar Guzairov, CEO of Innostage.

Cybersecurity academy launch

On January 25, 2023, Innostage announced the launch of a cybersecurity academy aimed at developing the information security industry in Russia and solving key issues of personnel shortages through training activities at all educational levels.

The Academy combines several initiatives for practical training in the field of information security at all levels. At the level of secondary general education, open lessons will be held together with the Digital Russia project, which will start in schools in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2023. As part of supporting higher education, the Intercollegiate SOC project has been launched, which will help universities increase their overall level of security and solve the problem of lack of IB-personnel, forming specialists with practical skills.

The third area of ​ ​ work is the training of specialists based on the cyber training platform, Innostage's own development. Virtual cyberpolygon simulates IT infrastructure enterprises and current scenarios hacker attacks for Russian information systems. The platform is implemented on Russian technologies: from equipment and IPS to the system of automation of the educational process, and allows you to train up to 25 thousand people a year.

We expect Innostage Cyber ​ ​ Security Academy to train information security specialists at all levels - from school to enterprise employees, making invaluable contributions industry to digital security. For Russia example, at the cyber training program, we will train specialists in the field of practical cybersecurity, thereby solving the key problem of the industry - the shortage of information security personnel, and increasing the overall digital stability of Russian organizations. The training takes the example of real chains of the most common attacks: deface sites,, phishing implement, encoders spy ON and miners. 150 experts have already been trained on the platform in 2022, - says the Aydar Guzairov CEO of Innostage.

On the platform, you can engage in both independent training and organize corporate training for teams responsible for ensuring information security at the enterprise. Also, on the Innostage platform, cyber training can be carried out to assess the readiness of information security teams to withstand real cyber threats.

In the future, as part of the development of the Innostage Cybersecurity Academy, it is planned to work together with large enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan to organize a program and subsequently conduct regular cyber training in order to improve the skills and general level of digital sustainability of the business.

The launch of an elective cybersecurity program in schools of the Republic of Tatarstan is also planned for 2023.

2022

3rd place in the ranking "Largest IT suppliers in the fuel and energy complex of Russia"

Innostage took 3rd place in the TAdviser rating, prepared on the basis of revenue from the implementation of IT projects in the fuel and energy sector in Russia by the end of 2022 and published in January 2024. Read more here.

8th place in the ranking "The largest providers of solutions in the field of information security in Russia"

Innostage took 8th place in the TAdviser rating, prepared on the basis of revenue from the implementation of information security projects in Russia in 2022 and published in October 2023. The rating includes vendors, integrators and distributors of information security products. More 2022:_TAdviser_Security_100:_.D0.9A.D1.80.D1.83.D0.BF.D0.BD.D0.B5.D0.B9.D1.88.D0.B8.D0.B5_.D0.98.D0.91-.D0.BA.D0.BE.D0.BC.D0.BF.D0.B0.D0.BD.D0.B8.D0.B8_.D0.B2_.D0.A0.D0.BE.D1.81.D1.81.D0.B8.D0.B8 here.

Opening a development center in Saratov

Innostage has opened a development center in Saratov. This representative office will allow Innostage to strengthen the competencies of the development team, as well as expand its own capacities. The company announced this on November 30, 2022.

Among the key competencies of the office team are the creation of an IT architecture and optimization of the software development process. In the structure of the Saratov office, the direction of architecture, the project office, the development, testing and analytics departments are distinguished. The team works in close conjunction with colleagues from Kazan. They harmoniously supplemented each other's competencies and together act as a "united front" - both in design work and in terms of ongoing improvements in software production practices.

When creating the Saratov center, we pursued the goal of rapidly expanding our capacities and strengthening competencies. The created team brought additional experience and a "look at development practices" - in terms of presale, solution development architecture, project management and project development teams, analytics processes, testing and code creation itself. We aim to create a single development team with the same and extremely effective culture of presale, architecture and production, distributed into two resource centers, "said Dmitry Drozdikov, director of production at Innostage.

The Saratov office was headed by Vladimir Shchukovsky, head of the Innostage Information Systems Development Center. The team for November 2022 has 25 people and continues to expand.

Participation in the creation of an intercollegiate SOC in Tatarstan

Russia The Intercollegiate Student provider Services (cyber security MSSP) SOC is created on the basis of the Consortium of Supporting Universities of the Republic. Tatarstan The project is supported by Innostage Group together with technology partners, which the company announced on September 21, 2022. The role of Innostage HA in the development of intercollegiate SOC is to provide a methodological framework for its construction. The company provides the center with a team of specialists with extensive experience in dealing with incidents. In addition, Innostage provides SOC with the technological resources to build the infrastructure and generally monitors the implementation of the project. More. here

2021: Hosting The Standoff Moscow

The world's largest cyber training, The Standoff Moscow, was held in Moscow, organized by Positive Technologies in partnership with Innostage Group of Companies. In this article, we will tell you in detail about the course of the battle, evaluate the infrastructure of the virtual state and analyze the techniques of attackers and defenders. Read more here.

2020

Revenue - 5,620 million rubles

At the end of 2020, InnoSTage's revenue amounted to 5,620 million rubles.

Inclusion in the TAdviser rating "The largest suppliers of information security solutions in Russia"

InnoSTage is included in the rating "The largest suppliers of information security solutions in Russia" by revenue for 2020, "prepared by TAdviser in October 2021. Read more here.

2019: Founding of the company

On December 17, 2019, it became known that the Tatarstan company InnoSTage, which operates in the market of cybersecurity, system integration and development of information systems, entered the IT market in Russia. Also within the group of companies there is a professional operator of cyber defense services CyberART and a business accelerator Digital Super Hero (DSH).

The group of companies was headed by Aydar Guzairov.

The basis of any IT company is specialists, their experience and competencies. InnoSTage Group has united people with whom I worked side by side for more than 15 years. We have a huge project experience behind us. Based on this foundation, we can confidently look to the future and continue to work in the information security and system integration markets. If we talk about the future, we are aimed at creating innovative products using big data technologies and artificial intelligence, "Aydar Guzairov told about his team and plans of the group of companies.

Going into an independent business, InnoSTage strives not only to maintain its position in the IT and information security markets, but also to go beyond the integrator of finished products - to become an integrator of ideas. The DSH business accelerator will help in this company. He interacts with young teams, helps them refine the product and find customers. It is planned that DSH will become a platform for the growth of young IT startups in Tatarstan in the next year or two.

As of 2019, InnoSTage collaborated with ICL Group of Companies in the exchange of resources and competencies within the framework of joint projects.